Departmental Research
Specialty Areas, Groups, and Centers
Centers
The Markey Center for Structural Biology is a group of research laboratories that is studying a diverse group of biological problems including cellular signaling pathways, RNA catalysis, bioremediation, molecular evolution, viral entry, viral replication and viral pathogenesis using a combination of x-ray crystallography, electron cryo-microscopy, NMR spectroscopy, and advanced computational and modeling tools.
The Purdue Cancer Center is among an elite group of Cancer Centers nationwide to earn the distinguished National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. One of just seven NCI-designated basic-research Cancer Centers in the United States, we are committed to helping cancer patients by identifying new molecular targets and designing future agents and drugs for effectively detecting and treating cancer.
The Ross Reserve has for 56 years provided Purdue University with an invaluable teaching and research environment. On the bank of the Wabash River, it is a forest rich in biological diversity and in history of ecological study.
