Facts
Faculty fact
Professors Tom Guilfoyle, Gretchen Hagen, Gerald Hazelbauer, Bruce McClure, Jan Miernyk, Doug Randall, Linda Randall, Gary Stacey, Peter Tipton, Judy Wall and Gary Weisman are Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Professors Gerald Hazelbauer, Linda Randall, Gary Stacey and Judy Wall are fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Professors Tom Guilfoyle, Gretchen Hagen and Doug Randall have been honored with a Barnes Life Membership in the American Society for Plant Biology.
Professor Emeritus Doug Randall is in his second six-year term on the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation.
Professor Bill Folk was acknowledged as an Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor in 2012.
Professors Tom Guilfoyle, Doug Randall, and Gary Stacey are fellows of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
The MU Center for Botanical Interactions Studies, led by Professor Dennis Lubahn, is funded by a $7.6 million grant from the NIH.
Professor Bruce McClure is on a 2010-12 leave of absence to serve as a program director for the National Science Foundation.
The Department of Biochemistry graduate program includes two members of the National Academy of Sciences, Linda Randall and R. Michael Roberts.
Assistant (now Associate) Professor Xiaoqin Zou, Joint Assistant Professor Gavin King and Assistant Professor Peter Cornish were granted prestigious 5-year NSF CAREER Awards in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively.
Professor Grace Sun was awarded the 2012 President's Award for Sustained Excellence from the University of Missouri System.
Professor Grace Sun serves on the NIH Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
Professors Grace Sun and Gary Weisman were awarded a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a Program Project aimed at understanding causes of Alzheimer's disease.
Associate Professor Jay Thelen received two awards in 2011: the President's Early Career Award from the University of Missouri System and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity from MU.
Professor Shuqun Zhang received a "Top Reviewer Award" from The Plant Journal in 2011.
Student Success Facts
Graduate students Khalid Alam and Jonathan Morrand are 2012-2014 NSF Graduate Fellows in a science education program that places graduate students in 4th and 5th grade classrooms.
Every year more than half of our undergraduate Biochemistry majors graduate as an Honors Scholar and/or cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude.
Rankings Facts
The Scientist rated MU 30th among the Top 40 Best Places to Work: U.S. Academic Institutions.
MU is 7th in the nation in plant sciences funding from the National Science Foundation.
Times Higher Education ranked MU 8th in the U.S. and 15th in the world for plant and animal sciences.
The Scientist ranked MU 6th among academic institutions as a location to do postdoctoral studies.
Facilities Facts
The Department of Biochemistry houses an ultrashielded, $2.1 million 800 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, the second of its generation installed in the U.S. and the only one in Missouri. The instrument was funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
MU is home to the world's most powerful university research reactor and is the largest U.S. producer of radioisotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
A campus-wide facility for small molecule mass spectrometry will be located on the ground floor of Biochemistry's home in Schweitzer Hall.