Research Opportunities

As a rigorous training program and launching pad for a research-intensive career in medicine, students in the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology master’s program have access to numerous resources for enriching their biomedical research experience and expertise.

Lab Training

The program curriculum is designed to provide an experiential and methodological learning environment, laying the groundwork for our students’ future careers in academia, research institutions such as NIH, FDA, NIST, and the biotechnology industry. Students gain significant hands-on training experience by performing in-depth lab experiments in various advanced lab-based courses, which develop expertise in biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, and biotechnology core concepts and skills.

Learn about our advanced lab courses: Lab Applications, Cell Culture, Advanced Lab

Faculty and Department Research

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology is one of the largest research clusters at Georgetown University, with more than a dozen labs spanning eight areas of research.

If you are interested in doing your research internship through a department laboratory, you may visit our Faculty & Staff page to learn about our faculty’s research areas and identify potential research internship mentors.

Capstone Internship

Students are matched with senior researchers and principal investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center or the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, or in off-campus government labs such as NIH, FDA, NIST, DEA, and biotechnology companies in the MD/DC/VA biotechnology corridor for an intensive 280-hour (20 hours per week) professional internship in their second semester of study. The well-organized capstone internship program culminates in students presenting their research results at tri-annual poster presentations and submitting a 20-page research paper.

Learn More About the Capstone Internship