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Founded in 1983, The Ohio State Biochemistry Program (OSBP) is a campus-wide graduate program that has granted over 380 PhD degrees. With 70 students and 79 faculty currently in the program, OSBP offers a wide range of research opportunities spanning all areas of biochemistry, including Molecular Basis of Disease, Chemical Biology and Enzymes, Structural Biology, and Molecular Biology and Genetics.

Upcoming Events

Tue, November 25, 2025

OSBP Annual Candidacy Q&A Panel

Event Start Time: 4:10 pm
Event Location: 111 Parks Hall

Recent News

Yujia Xie

DHLRI Research Day Predoctoral Poster Competition Winner

Yujia Xie, OSBP doctoral candidate in the Lewandowski lab, received the first prize in the predoctoral poster competition during the OSU Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (DHLRI) Research…

Matthew Benedek

NIH Awards R21 Grant for Recombinase Engineering Project Developed by OSBP Graduate Student Matthew Benedek

The NIH has awarded a two-year Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21), titled "Development of Tools for Directed Evolution of High-Specificity, High-Efficiency Recombinases," for a project proposed…

Joseph Kanlong

Graduate Student Research Award

Congratulations to Joseph Kanlong for being the first OSBP Graduate Student Research Awardee of 2025!

Poster Session

2025 LS-IGP Student Award Winners

On May 21, the annual Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Symposium convened at The Ohio State University’s Ohio Union. The symposium highlights the research of the four…