In 2005, further restructuring occurred and the Centre for Environmental Policy, Cell and Molecular Biology, Molecular Biosciences and Biology were moved to the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

In 2007 the Divisions of Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biosciences were moved into the Department of Life Sciences within the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

He completed his B.S. in Chemistry from Grand Canyon University in 1990 and earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with an emphasis in Molecular Biosciences [1] from Purdue University in 1995.

Richard I. Morimoto is the Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, and Director of the Rice Institute for Biomedical Research at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Ahmed is also affiliated with the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as an Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the Institute of Biological Sciences.

Nevertheless, he continued working in research and became Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Emeritus Professor of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences.

The School was renamed the School of Molecular Bioscience from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences on 11 February 2010.

He became head of the new Department of Molecular Biosciences in 2000.

There is particularly strength in the field of biomedical sciences, and a Centre for Molecular Biosciences (located at Coleraine) is one of the major projects developed by the university.

Neil L. Kelleher is the Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Medicine at Northwestern University.