Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine

Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, was awarded $435K from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study how certain environmental factors affect the gene RORA, which has been shown to be an important regulator of multiple genes of neurological…

William Weglicki, M.D., professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and professor of Medicine, has assumed the role of Acting Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine while Dr. Rakesh Kumar is on temporary leave from the Chair position.

Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine and associate professor of genetics, served as editor of the newly published book, “Frontiers in Autism Research.”

Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, was featured in an article in The DePauw on the first three finalists for the Murad Medal, which is named for him.

Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, was quoted in Healthcare Informatics on a new partnership with Internet2 to further his genomics research.

Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, appeared on The EmeraldPlanet to discuss a project he jointly leads known as the High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE).

Professors Ferid Murad and Akos Vertes recognized for "outstanding inventions" by the National Academy of Inventors. Murad leads a lab program in the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences' Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine.

Wenge Zhu, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a $720,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to identify a new pathway to regulate DNA damage repair in cancer…

Ferid Murad, M.D., University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, was quoted in the Business Standard after delivering a lecture at the two-day international symposium on nitric oxide organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology.

Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, was featured by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative for her recently published research in Molecular Psychiatry.