The mission of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Penn Medicine is to promote and execute the highest quality research and education in the quantitative understanding of molecular mechanism in biology and medicine.
The Department is home to the largest concentration of expertise in modern quantitative biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology on campus – with faculty who are international leaders in these areas. The overarching goal of the Department is to use these disciplines to understand molecular mechanism in medicine and how to exploit this understanding for therapeutic purposes. Central to this mission is collaboration with other parts of the Penn research community. Ultimately, details of molecular mechanism underlie explanations of all disease processes and therapies. The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics seeks to provide these explanations and to work with other scientists at Penn and elsewhere to exploit them in advancing biomedical research.
The faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics hold many awards and honors. The Department has two members of the National Academy of Sciences (Englander and Dreyfuss), one Fellow of the Royal Society of London (Dutton), two HHMI Investigators (Dreyfuss and Van Duyne), and two Fellows of the Biophysical Society (Wand and Englander). Recent awards include: 2012 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (Lewis), 2012 Protein Society Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award (Lemmon), and Michael S. Brown New Investigator Award for 2012 (Shorter) and 2011 (Black).
Microbiome
WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
The mass of microorganisms found all over our bodies is studied as one unit. What is it called?
Jim Shorter has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Effective July 1, 2013
The International Symposium on Metabolic Imaging and Spectroscopy, honoring the Centennial of Britton Chance's birth, will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on June 18-19, 2013.
Details and registration
Penn Almanac obituary of Paul Mueller, Research Professor from 1981-1992.
The Vinogradov Lab published "Dendritic upconverting nanoparticles enable in vivo multiphoton microscopy with low-power continuous wave sources" by
TV Esipova, X Ye, JE Collins, S Sakadžić, ET Mandeville, CB Murray, and SA Vinogradov (2012) PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1213291110
Department/Graduate Group Retreat
November 7 - 8, 2013
Skytop Lodge in the Pocono Mountains
Open Faculty Positions
2013 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania