The Joint Biochemistry Program is a combined graduate program organized with faculty members from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Students in the program have access to outstanding centers and 
research organizations such as The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, two NMR facilities (two 800 MHz, three 600 MHz, two 500 MHz spectrometers), two X-ray crystallography facilities, a fluorescence spectroscopy center, and more than 50 nationally and internationally recognized faculty members.
There are also several nationally recognized NIH funded training programs including the Meyerhoff Graduate Training for Minorities, The Muscle program, The Membrane program, and the Chemistry/Biology Interface Training programs. Our faculty are well funded by several agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The National Science Foundation (NSF), The American Cancer Society (ACS), The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), The American Heart Association (AHA), and several other foundations.
Research topics include a wide range of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fields such as gene expression/transcription regulation, viral DNA packaging, DNA mismatch repair, tumor suppressor structure and function, regulation of calcium and signal transduction pathways, calcium transport, enzyme catalysis, cardiac muscle regulation, fluorescence spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, optical sensors, complex polysaccharide structure/function, organic and bioorganic mechanisms, DNA binding proteins, DNA binding drugs, retrovirus structure and function/HIV, and much more.