The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is committed to offering quality training and research on recent advances in biochemistry and biotechnology to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and focuses towards meeting the needs of the ever changing world. The department offers rigorous courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and participates in research geared towards an in-depth knowledge of the molecular logic of life. In order to accommodate the ever changing intellectual climate of scientific research in life sciences, the department has continued to conduct relevant trainings to suit the needs of the market. Students trained in the department acquire a strong theoretical grounding and a sufficient practical exposure necessary for quality performance in their respective career destinations.

The programmes offered at the department are carefully selected and designed to motivate students to conceptualize the molecular designs of life processes. The knowledge gained can be applied to address key aspects of applied biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, bioengineering and bioinformatics for the purpose of advancing knowledge in health, food production, industrial development and environment protection. The main themes and areas covered by the programmes are:
•    Chemical and molecular foundations of life and living processes
•    Conformation dynamics; exemplified by the relationship between three dimensional structure of proteins and their  biological activity
•    Strategies of generation and storage of metabolic energy in  different levels of life
•    Strategies of biosynthesis of macro-molecular precursors, metabolic intermediates and reducing     equivalents in the living spectrum
•    Molecular physiology; interaction of information, conformation and metabolism in physiological processes. These central themes are further amplified in the strategic and applied sense in elucidating the molecular circuitry in living  processes with respect to;
-    The molecular basis on the on-going struggle between man and parasitic metazoans, protozoans, bacteria and viruses
-    Biochemical pharmacology and pharmacognosy
-    Biochemical endocrinology and immunochemistry
-    Clinical biochemistry and molecular diagnostics
-    Exploitation of bioinformatics tools in molecular biology