Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine
Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), says the goal of his department’s Nobel Laureate lecture series “is to bring the best people in the world to Washington, D.C., and…
A school of public health seems an unlikely home for a chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an organization promoting sustainable engineering projects in developing countries. But for Sarah Diamond, a second-year M.P.H. candidate in the Milken Institute for Public Health (formerly the GW…
Ferid Murad, Ph.D., university professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was interviewed by Nature on topics ranging from treating diabetes to his Nobel Prize.
On a Wednesday last April, Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), eagerly anticipated the release of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) study that she authored and that appeared in the online science journal PLoS One.
The question had puzzled doctors for more than 100 years: How did nitroglycerin — the same explosive compound Alfred Nobel famously tamed in his invention of dynamite — work as a therapeutic? They knew it flushed blood into the heart, alleviating painful conditions like angina, but how?
Rising 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade girls from Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) were able to take a closer look at the field of genomics during two sessions of the “Go Girl” (Genomic Opportunities for Girls in Research Labs) Camp, held June 20-23 and June 27-30 at the George Washington…
WASHINGTON (April 27, 2011) — By dividing individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) into four subtypes according to similarity of symptoms and reanalyzing existing genome-wide genetic data on these individuals vs. controls, researchers at the George Washington University School of…
A new study by Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, offers some clues into the mystery of why autism is four times more common in males than in females.
George Washington University researcher Dr. Valerie Hu, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, have found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression of an important gene in neuronal cell culture through a mechanism…
The George Washington University Medical Center’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology welcomes the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Aaron J. Ciechanover, M.D., Ph.D., for The Nobel Laureate Distinguished Lecture Series on Feb. 10.