The Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB) is a university-wide, interdisciplinary research Institute,
whose goal is to promote cell and molecular biology research and education at the University of Texas at Austin. ICMB currently has more than 136 faculty members affiliated with 16 different departments in the Colleges of Natural Sciences, Engineering, and Pharmacy. ICMB faculty are broadly interdisciplinary with research areas including biochemistry, cell and developmental biology, molecular biology, molecular evolution, molecular genetics, microbiology, nanoscience, systems and synthetic biology, neurobiology, chemical biology, drug development, structural biology, biophysics, biodefense, nutrition, pharmaceutical sciences, bioengineering, bioinformatics, and computational biology.
