• The activites of the department are variable including teaching, research, collaboration researches with related department in the Medical Research Institute, The registration of postgraduate students with different backgrounds either in biological science, Medicine, Veterinary, pharmacy and faculty of education (biology department) for M.Sc and Ph.d degrees. Curricula are designed for obligatory and elective courses to fulfill the requirements needed.

• The reaearch activities : include the participation of staff in members. Scientific seminars either in the department or sharing others in the conferences and congresses either local or international with scientific papers.
• The future planes will include the proposal of projects either by stuff members of the department or by sharing with other departments in the Medical Research Institute either local or international.
• The services include preparation of samples either paraffin or frozen , Sectioning , Aplication of different stains, Photography and image analysis. This is offered for researchers in faculties of Science, Medicine, Veterinary, Agriculture, and related department in the Medical Research Institute. This activists are paid and constitute an income to the department to be used for other research activities.

Thesis

The main areas of interest include the study of histochemistry and cell biology of tumors either induced by different carcinogens in special strains of animals and human tumors under different modalities of treatment. The approach of conducting these research activities is through different procedures including histo-cytochemical, immuno histochemical and electron microscopic techniques. Recently the introduction of the immunohistochemical study of tumor markers either in experimentally induced tumors and human tumors is going in its way.

The main lines of Research in the Department of Histochemistry and cell Biology include the following :

1- Application of different techniques in the field of cell biology including Histochemistry , Immunohistechemical and Ultra structural in the following topics .

- Community related diseases as Bilharziasis , Fasciolasis and Hepatitis .

- Study of  Human Tumors with emphasis on most Common Prevailing  as  Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Breast and Renal Tumors .

2- Future Research in the field of Stem Cell and  Molecular cell Biology in collaboration with allied Departments .