The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology is part of the Medical Center at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University. The department awards both master's degrees and Ph.D.'s in biochemistry. Master's students have a selection of career tracks aimed at academic research, industry and government. The doctoral program accepts no more than five Ph.D. candidates in any year, all of whom receive a stipend and full scholarship. Original research is an important requirement, and the school's research programs focus on the areas of adult stem cells, bioinformatics, cancer, drug discovery, endocrinology, infectious diseases, molecular machines and neurodegenerative diseases.
The Medical Center at Winston-Salem's Wake Forest University offers a Ph.D. program in biochemistry and molecular biology. Selected students receive two years of intensive classroom instruction and research rotations, followed by additional time in the school's research facilities. Doctoral students are required to complete a program of original research and defend a dissertation based on it, before receiving the Ph.D. Wake Forest's areas of biochemical research are structural biology, molecular biology, genetics/genomics and proteomics/metabolomics, the latter being the studies, respectively, of the proteins and metabolic processes of living cell tissues.
The Upstate Medical University in Syracuse is part of the State University of New York. Its Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology offers both master's degrees and doctorates in the field. As with other schools, original research is an essential requirement for either degree. Students will typically complete a master's program in two years while the doctorate generally requires five. The school's research laboratories are equipped for high-quality bioimaging and electron microscopy, and the faculty's primary area of focus is proteomics.
The Biosciences Department at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, offers a doctoral program in biochemistry. Biochemistry is one of the 13 specialties Stanford offers within the field of biosciences, and students will spend most of their time within their own program, where students and faculty form a tightly-knit and supportive community. Students are free to participate in the activies of other programs, maintaining a free flow of ideas. Research opportunities at Stanford include the genome mapping of diseases, repairing DNA damage in cells and helping develop new small-molecule drugs.