Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine

Researchers at GW and the University of Georgia are partners in a project that will soon be able to provide a way for questions asked by those studying glycoscience to be answered by big data.
Valerie Hu, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, spoke to Spectrum for an article discussing a recent study that suggests processes that enable the brain to store new memories may also control many autism genes .
At the height of the Fifth International Symposium on Thymosins in Health and Disease at the George Washington University (GW), researchers Luigina Romani, MD, PhD, from the University of Perugia; Enrico Garaci, MD, from the University San Raffaele Roma; and Allan Goldstein, PhD, Professor Emeritus…
GW and the FDA have published a BioCompute Object Specification Document for research and clinical trial use, which details a new framework for communication of High-throughput Sequencing computations and data analysis, known as BioCompute Objects. 
Norman Lee, PhD, professor of pharmacology and physiology, published research in Nature Communications finding that a form of genetic variation, called differential RNA splicing, may have a role in tumor aggressiveness and drug resistance in African American men with prostate cancer. 
Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences received a NIH grant to develop databases to normalize cancer genomics data.
Anelia Horvath, Ph.D., associate research professor of pharmacology & physiology, published research in the New England Journal of Medicine finding that some women with BRCA 1/2 genetic mutations also have the co-occurrence of a rare COMT genetic variant. 
Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., and his team host a workshop for more than 300 participants at the NIH to get feedback on biocompute objects.
Allan L. Goldstein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Residence of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, co-authored a paper published in Nature Medicine finding a potential new drug to treat and stop the progression of cystic fibrosis. 
Ray-Chang Wu, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, and Mei-Yi Wu, Ph.D., associate research professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, were mentioned for their stem cell research in an article from Stem Cells Portal.