Sackler School faculty members are creative scientists with diverse and well-funded research programs. They are deeply involved in their disciplines — nationally and internationally. They sit on NIH review boards, hold positions in national science organizations, and are active in a variety of Boston-wide research groups, some of which they created. They are also a major factor in Tufts University's "Research Extensive" rating by the Carnegie foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Sackler scientists benefit as much as students from a collaborative spirit and open exchange of ideas. Many collaborative research projects arise from the fact that one third of the faculty members participate in more than one of the Biomedical Science programs.

Some areas of investigation by Sackler investigators are:

• analysis of multigene expression and regulation
• autoimmune diseases
• bacterial, viral and parasite pathogenesis
• catalytic mechanisms of enzymes
• cell growth and differentiation
• cell matrices in limb development
• cell transformation to malignancy
• clinical genetics
• developmental genetics
• DNA replication
• emerging diseases
• immune responses to infection
• immunopharmacology
• membrane transport and intracellular trafficking
• meta-analysis and clinical outcomes research
• multigene expression and regulation
• neurogenetics
• neuronal synapse function
• pharmacokinetics
• protein structure
• retroviruses
• RNA synthesis and processing
• sensory neurobiology
• sensory system differentiation
• signal transduction