Molecular medicine is a relatively new field of molecular biology which employs chemical, physical, biological as well as medical techniques and methods to describe and predict the molecular mechanism and structures. Molecular medicine also strives to identify the genetic errors of diseases at the molecular level and then develops interventions to correct these errors at the molecular level. Molecular medicine focuses upon interventions of the cellular and molecular nature instead of the traditional observational concentrations on the whole organs.

The groundwork of molecular medicine as a field was laid by Linus Pauling and his collaborators in their decisive paper “Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" which was published in 1949. During the 1970s, molecular medicine recived little or no attention as a separate field until the “biological revolution” which was the center point of many new commercial applications and practical techniques. Molecular medicine has now become a scientific educatory field in numerous European universities. This field is a combination of biochemistry and the traditional medical studies. Undergraduate courses in molecular medicine are vey rare to date. Most students with a degree in molecular medicine is most likely to follow a career in laboratory work, medical science, postgraduate medical degrees or individual or collective scientific research. The main subjects of molecular medicine are intrinsically similar to those of biochemistry such as gene expression, immunology, biotechnology, research methods pertaining to protein and cancer. In only a handful of universities molecular biology is taught in combination of chemistry.