生物医学科学包括与了解健康和治疗疾病相关的研究领域。在国内和国际上，生物医学研究所获得的全部科学经费约占总研究经费的一半。如此高的代表性凸显了基础生物医学研究与医疗保健的相关性，以及全人类在了解我们自身身体机制方面的天然好奇心。在理解人类疾病或其控制方法（脊髓灰质炎，麻疹，流感，抗生素，癌症遗传学疫苗）方面的突破一直并将继续取决于对细胞和分子水平的生物学机制的基础研究。
The biomedical sciences encompass study areas relevant to the understanding of health and treatment of disease. Biomedical research receives, both nationally and internationally, around half the total research dollars available to all of science. This high representation underscores the relevance of basic biomedical research to health care and the natural curiosity shared by all humans about understanding the mechanisms of our own bodies. Breakthroughs in understanding human disease or its control (vaccines for polio, measles, influenza, antibiotics, cancer genetics) have been, and continue to be, dependent on fundamental research into biological mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level.