Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology is the first department established by the College of Basic Medical Sciences. It is established based on the development of life sciences and the overall layout of discipline construction. The department is committed to conduct cutting-edge research that addresses critical clinical needs and to educate and train the next generation of biomedicine science leaders. Research in our department focus on fundamental and applied questions related to tumor biology, epigenetic regulation, cardiovascular disease, mitochondria biology and neurological diseases. We also engage in highly collaborative clinical research with affiliated hospitals of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Since 2009, we have been supported by 281 projects of various types with a total funding of over 100 million, and published 230SCI research papers or invited reviews papers. Our faculty won many prestigious prizes such as the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the Ministry of Education's College Natural Science Award and so on. Another crucial undertaking of the department is to provide basic medical education. It offers courses of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology classes for undergraduates, postgraduates and various continuing education.

Currently, the department has 12 principal investigators, 71 faculty and staff distributed in each research group, and 2 teaching teams including 17 professors, 15 associate professors, 13 doctoral supervisors, 14 master instructors, and 15 postdoctoral fellows. Furthermore, there are 98 students, including 66 doctoral students and 32 master students. Our postgraduate training system has become a model for the college, and it increasingly becomes the corner stone of scientific research in the department.

We plan to recruit outstanding young investigators who aim to explore frontier research on metabolism regulation in a broad sense. And we are thriving to foster an outstanding research environment that is enriched with integrative intellectual expertise and modern technology. We are also pride to create a friendly, supportive, and interactive atmosphere to train our highly motivated students and postdoctoral trainees.