Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine

Raja Mazumder, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, authored a paper published in PLOS ONE outlining the baseline biome of a healthy human gut. This will serve as a reference for doctors, patients, and researchers, giving them an idea of what a “normal” human microbiome looks…
A team at the GW Cancer Center has identified the protein ERK as an important mechanism behind platinum-resistance in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.
Students in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences were hooded at the GW Columbian College School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
The science of pain is an area Anthony S. LaMantia, PhD, director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience, has long wanted to address during the institute’s annual symposium; in its ninth year, that topic was finally the focus of the event.
Rong Li, PhD, is conducting research on the regulation of estrogen receptor beta signaling in carcinogenesis.
Rong Li, PhD, was installed as the Ross Professor of Basic Science Research at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences will have a presence at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting, Feb. 14–17 in Washington, D.C.
Researchers from GW, FDA, and industry leaders published in PLOS Biology, describing a standardized communication method for researchers performing high-throughput sequencing called BioCompute.
GW and the FDA published an update to the BioCompute Object Specification Project, which provides much-needed standards for communicating high-throughput sequencing computations and data analysis, known as BioCompute Objects.
Rong Li, PhD, will serve as chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.