Jul 19
BCMB will be hosting two virtual informational sessions. You will have the opportunity to learn about our program and ask... Read More
Welcome to the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Graduate Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
We are one of the oldest multidisciplinary graduate programs in the country. Our mission is to train independent research scientists for productive careers by providing a broad foundation in basic science and promoting the study of problems of biomedical importance from a mechanistic perspective. Learn More from our director
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Recent News
Updates and news from our department.
Apr 18
Congratulations to four of our BCMB students on winning Young Investigators Day Awards this year. Casie Kubota, Connor McKenney, Tyler... Read More
Apr 02
Congratulations to Dr. Sergi Regot (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics) for receiving the 2024 Hamilton Smith Award for Innovative... Read More
Nov 07
Congratulations to the 2021 Class for receiving the honorary white coat!... Read More
Oct 26
Congratulations to Erin Goley, Zhaozhu Qiu, Shigeki Watanabe and Bin Wu on being the first recipients of the Randall J.... Read More
Sep 08
Recent Accomplishments
Our students accomplish great things
2024 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
2024 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
2023 NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31)
2023 NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship
2023 Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award
Recent Publications
Our latest research and discoveries.
Weinberg RL, Kim S, Pang Z, Awad S, Hanback T, Pan B, Bettin L, Chang D, Polydefkis MJ, Qu L, Caterina MJ., 2024, Pain Hypersensitivity in SLURP1 and SLURP2 Knock-out Mouse Models of Hereditary Palmoplantar Keratoderma, J Neurosci., 44(28):e0260232024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0260-23.2024. PMID: 38866482 PubMed
Barrows JM, Talavera-Figueroa BK, Payne IP, Smith EL, Goley ED., 2024, GTPase activity regulates FtsZ ring positioning in Caulobacter crescentus, Mol Biol Cell., 35(7):ar97. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E23-09-0365. PMID: 38758654 PubMed
Kubota CS, Myers SL, Seppälä TT, Burkhart RA, Espenshade PJ., 2024, In vivo CRISPR screening identifies geranylgeranyl diphosphate as a pancreatic cancer tumor growth dependency, Mol Metab., 85:101964. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2024.101964. PMCID: PMC11217740 PubMed