Academic Profile & Vision
The Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (DBB) was founded in 2000 in response to the country鈥檚 need for new highly trained graduates in the scientific area of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Since then, the Department grew rapid both in the numbers of graduates as well as in scientific staff and infrastructures. The DBB has 24 faculty members with expertise in state-of-the-art scientific disciplines in order to support the needs of its demanding undergraduate syllabus and the six programs of postgraduate studies. Currently 1155 biochemist & biotechnologists have graduated and 794 postgraduate and 88 doctorate degrees have been awarded.
The academic and scientific excellence and extroversion constitute fundamental characteristics of the Department鈥檚 academic profile. There are 8 established Research Laboratories conducting state of the art research comprising of the Laboratory of Genetics, Comparative and Evolution Biology, the Laboratory of Structural and Functional Biochemistry, the Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology and Genomics, the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology and Environment, the Laboratory of Animal Physiology, the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, the Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology-Molecular Bacteriology-Virology and the Laboratory of Bioinformatics.
Facing the future, the Department鈥檚 aspiration is to continue to provide high level Education in the modern disciplines of the scientific area of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, reinforcing in parallel its position in international scientific community acting as a pole of scientific innovation in direct interaction with industry, through the development of new innovative products and practices but also with society through a continuous communication and transfer of knowledge.