Scholarships & Awards
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Seminars & Symposia
Engage with experts from around the world during our seminar series and symposia.
The UW–Madison Department of Biochemistry was founded in 1883. Since then, we've provided a world-class education and innovative and collaborative research environments to thousands of students, faculty, and staff. Our researchers study virtually every area of biochemistry — propelling this rapidly-moving discipline forward.
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News
Have Your Wrapper and Eat It Too
Biochemists are partnering with food scientists to move toward a compostable option for food packaging that’s also edible. It could keep more plastic out of our waterways and our bodies.
Neugebauer Receives High Risk, High Reward New Innovator Award
With support from the National Institutes of Health, assistant professor Monica Neugebauer will explore the untapped potential of nickel-dependent enzymes.
Enlisting AI in the Fight Against Drug-resistant Bacteria
Researchers in the Raman Lab have developed new ways to identify phages that could treat bacterial infections.
New Instructional Faculty: Rae Brown
Get to know Rae Brown through their Q&A.
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Events
- November
- November 2Biochemistry Colloquium: Henry De BellyMechanical Forces as Long-range Organizers of Cellular Physiology3:00 PM, 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building
- November 9Biochemistry Colloquium: Jennifer Bridwell-RabbDesign Principles for Metalloprotein Chemistry3:00 PM, 1211 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building