The Lerner Research Institute is home to all laboratory-based research at Cleveland Clinic. Our mission is to understand the underlying causes of human diseases and to develop new treatments and cures.

The Department of Molecular Medicine focuses on the fundamentals of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology in the context of human health and disease.

Molecular Medicine Faculty have academic appointments in Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute (LRI) and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CCLCM). The LRI is home to all laboratory-based research at Cleveland Clinic, and the Faculty are the foundation of the Institute's integrated research community consisting of 11 Departments and more than a dozen Centers of Research. Faculty work in basic, translational and clinical research. CCLCM is a unique medical school program partnership between Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) that trains physician/scientists through integrating laboratory research and clinical medicine.

The Department Chair is Paul E. DiCorleto, Ph.D., who is also Chair of the Lerner Research Institute.

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