Biochemistry Dr. David E. Marx, Chairperson Biochemistry is the chemistry of living things. Biochemistry is an essential background to medicine, Much of the progress in our understanding of and ability to treat human physical ailments can be traced to the contributions of the biochemist. Biochemists are in the forefront of those seeking the cause and cure of such scourges as heart disease, multiple sclerosis and cancer. They are also attempting to increase the resistance of living things to the attack of other organisms. Additionally, clinical biochemists devise the tests that are used for diagnostic purposes in hospitals and clinical labs.
Forensic biochemists aid medical examiners in the detection and prosecution of criminal offenses.
The biochemistry program at the University of Scranton, unlike those at many other schools, is administered by the Chemistry Department and is much more chemically, than biologically,, oriented. Great stress is placed on undergraduate research done by individual students, under the direction of a professor and leading to a thesis which must be defended before the department. The first two years of the biochemistry program parallels the medical technology curriculum, providing students the option of easily changing from one major to the other. Allied health sciences, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, and dental or medical schools. N.E. Environmental Associates, North Shore University Hospital, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals and Zappata Industries.