Based on the urgent community need for graduates specialized in medical and lab analysis, Zarqa University established a Department of Biology in 1994 which evolved later in 1997 into the Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences.

The department has attracted an elite cadre of faculty members with high qualifications and long experience in the academic and scientific fields.

The department contains distinguished educational laboratories that emulate laboratories in international universities, such as:

1.    Clinical and biochemistry laboratories

2.    Histology and pathohistology laboratories

3.    Biology and Chemistry laboratories

4.    Microbiology laboratories

5.    Anatomy and Physiology laboratories

6.    Museum of medical and pathological samples

7.    Scientific research laboratory

The department has organized the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Medical and Biological Conferences through the years 1999, 2001, and 2004. Several professors, researchers from Jordanian universities and Arab hospitals, medical institutions, and Jordanian and Arab people specialized in the medical laboratories field have participated in these conferences. It has also organized many specialized scientific days.