Biochemistry

Are you interested in understanding how lightning bugs give off (cool) light or why some bacteria can thrive at freezing temperatures whereas others thrive at boiling temperatures? Do you wonder how anti-cancer drugs work and why vitamins are necessary for human health? If so, you may be a potential biochemist. Biochemists are curious about how and why biological processes happen, and they want answers right down to the nitty-gritty molecular level. They use novel techniques to get structural information far past the resolution of even the most sophisticated microscope! Yet biochemists are also biologists because they want to know how molecular properties influence life processes. Therefore, biochemistry forms the backbone of many other subjects.The Faculty of Science offers programs of study leading to either the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) or the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree.

Field of study: Biochemistry