Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. We offer a program of study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy degree, producing graduates who are capable of competing succesfully in today's challenging research environment. The medical school also offers an MD/PhD degree thus allowing medical students to participate in the research environment of the basic sciences departments. The department is dynamic and well equipped, yet small enough in size to provide the student with ample opportunity for scientific and personal interaction with faculty. All of the faculty members have active research programs, and many have achieved national and international recognition. Areas of research include: the physical biochemistry of nucleic acids and proteins, enzymology, protein chemistry, mechanisms of regulation of gene expression, cell biology, and regulation of protein synthesis. You are visitor# to this page. To check out the facilities, click here. Hot Topics in Biochemistry, click here. For more information regarding our program, fill out this Pre-application To learn more about some of the students, click here. Where are some of our former students?, click here, to find out. For more information about the Medical Center, click here. For more information about The University of Mississippi, click here. For more information about the Jackson area, click here.