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The Department of Physiology and Biophysics is a research oriented department, located at the Boston University School of Medicine. Our research encompasses many facets of Cell Biology, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Structural Biology, and Molecular Biophysics.

Graduate education plays a key role in the vibrancy of our scientific research, and we work continually to improve the programs and opportunities for graduate and medical students. Students graduated from our programs with the Ph.D. or M.D/Ph.D. degree have gone on to extremely successful careers in all areas of academic, pharmaceutical and industrial science.

The Department has extensive facilities and instrumentation for state-of-the-art research in cellular physiology and molecular biophysics. These include laboratories for NMR (both spectroscopy and imaging), X-ray diffraction and cryo-crystallography, electron cryo-microscopy and 3-D image reconstruction, micro-spectroscopy, calorimetry, light and fluorescence microscopy, optical tweezers, surface chemistry, electrophysiology, tissue culture and molecular biology.

Our size, about 100 personnel including faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research technicians and administrative support staff, is conducive to collaborations between groups, and many of the faculty have joint appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry, Medicine, or Cell and Molecular Biology. We invite you to browse our website, and encourage inquiries about our academic programs at any time.

Congratulations to Osamu Shimomura!

A winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on green fluorescent protein.

We are proud to announce that

Osamu Shimomura, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Recipient of 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will speak to the BU Medical Campus community on November 17, 2009 at 3 pm in the 670 Albany Street auditorium.


(Photo courtesy of SiPA Press, Inc.)

A reception will follow Dr. Shimomura's formal remarks.

Visit BU Today for more details.