The department includes 7 full-time faculty members, a number of adjunct faculty, and a support staff, which combine to meet its educational and research goals. Educational responsibilities include teaching major components of the first-year medical school curriculum, including Gross & Developmental Anatomy, Human Medical Histology and Medical Neuroscience, as well as teaching various related graduate level courses. Research areas of expertise include reproductive endocrinology and toxicity, neuroendocinology, neuroendocine influences of breast cancer, endocrine response mechanisms of breast cancer, the neurobiology of addiction, visual and somatic sensory neuroscience, control of cellular differentiation and the functional and structural organization of the retina among others.

The research facilities within the Department of Structural and Cellular Biology include a confocal microscopy suite, an electron microscope, cell and molecular biology laboratories, neuroanatomical and neurophysiological laboratories. In addition, the associated facilities of the Tulane Regional Primate Center are available, as are those of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the F. Edward Hebert Riverside Research Center.

Through the Graduate School, training is offered leading to the Ph.D. degree in Structural and Cellular Biology. The program is designed to prepare students for productive research and teaching careers.

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