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The Department of Biochemistry was formed in 1920 with the establishment of the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry, now held by Professor Edwin Southern, FRS. After much expansion in recent decades, it is one of the largest Departments of Biochemistry in the western world with over 30 senior academic members of staff, more than 150 postdoctoral workers and over 160 graduate research students. Together with support staff (approx. 130 persons) and undergraduate students, they number about 850 people in all, and employ more than 10% of the total staff in the University's non-clinical Science Departments.
The Department is housed in seven buildings that make up the main department and its six units and sub-departments, namely the Genetics Unit, the Glycobiology Institute, the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, the Microbiology Unit, the MRC Biochemical and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Unit and the MRC Immunochemistry Unit.
Research is both diverse and interdisciplinary, and is currently broadly based into three main areas: Molecular Genetics, Molecular Cell Biochemistry and Structural Biology. The laboratories possess `state of the art' facilities for nuclear magnetic resonance, protein and DNA sequencing, protein crystallography, in vitro cell culture, molecular biology, proteomics, mass spectrometry and many others. These facilities are excellently supported by a modern research library, networked computers, a photographic unit and a variety of workshops.
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