Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry seeks to understand how living organisms work. With this aim biochemistry, the study of biomolecules, now encompasses all of the molecular and cellular life sciences. Scientific topics falling under the broad description of biochemistry include genetics, immunology, virology, developmental biology, neurobiology, cell biology and structural biology. Research into biochemistry drives medical research into diseases ranging from cancer to AIDS to cystic fibrosis to malaria and biochemistry has been at the core of the biotechnology revolution. A recent milestone in biochemistry was the completion of the Human Genome Project. There has never been a better time to study biochemistry. A career in biochemistry can go in many directions: medical or veterinary research, pharmaceutical R & D, forensic science, food science and technology are among the potential areas in which biochemistry graduates find employment.

The Department

Biochemistry is a relatively new discipline, being introduced as a separate subject at NUI, Galway in 1963, and celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first honours graduates in 1997. The Department is highly active in research, having secured some 6.2 million euro for biochemical research in the last two years, and in teaching, where about 400 undergraduate students following different degree courses study biochemistry during any one year. We have a highly international environment, with approximately 100 staff members and research students coming from about twenty-five countries around the world. We also engage in numerous international collaborations in our various research topics and students from the Department frequently take part in such collaborations.

For general information, please contact:
Biochemistry Departmental Administrator
Email: Biochemistry
Telephone: 353 91 49 24 20.
Fax: 353 91 49 55 04.

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