Molecular Medicine faculty
- Lesa J. Beamer
Structural biology: X-ray crystallography of medically important proteins. - Donald H. Burke
Ribozyme mechanism and evolution and the origin of life; antiviral nucleic acid aptamers and the molecular basis of drug resistant HIV-1. - Susan L. Deutscher
Combinatorial biology applied to cancer detection and therapy. - William R. Folk
Gene expression and replication; plant nutritive improvement and medical uses. - Kent Gates
Mechanisms of DNA damage by synthetic and naturally occurring antitumor agents, toxins and mutagens. - Mark Hannink
BTB-Kelch substrate adaptor family in development, oncogenesis and neurodegeneration. - Michael Henzl
Biophysical characterization of EF-hand calcium-binding proteins; protein-ligand interactions. - Dennis B. Lubahn
Biochemical genetics and epigenetics of estrogens and related receptors. - Mark E. Martin
Transcriptional control in mitochondrial biogenesis and oxidative stress. - Thomas P. Mawhinney
Carbohydrates in cancer and bacterial infection; cancer prevention and treatment; host-pathogen interactions in cystic fibrosis; analytical methodologies. - Valeri Mossine
Carbohydrates and cancer. - Brenda A. Peculis
RNA processing, RNA stability, RNA turnover, RNA decapping enzymes, snoRNPs required for ribosome biogenesis. - Michael J. Petris
Regulation of metal nutrition and impacts on common human diseases. - Charlotte L. Phillips
Collagen in inherited and acquired diseases of bone and kidney; matrix metalloproteinases; medical genetics. - Thomas P. Quinn
Cancer diagnostics, radiopharmaceutical imaging and therapy; cell and molecular imaging. - R. Michael Roberts
Reproductive biology: signaling between conceptus and uterus; stem cells. - Stefan Sarafianos
Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and inhibition of HIV, SARS, and other viral and bacterial pathogens. - Frank J. Schmidt
Combinatorial chemistry of RNA and antimicrobial peptides; the prebiotic RNA world. - Krishna K. Sharma
Structure-function of crystallins, role of ocular proteases and molecular basis for cataract development. - Grace Y. Sun
Neurodegenerative diseases, signal transduction, phospholipases A2, oxidative stress, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant botanical compounds. - Peter A. Tipton
Mechanistic enzymology applied to agriculturally and medically important enzymes. - Richard Tsika
Transcriptional regulation in striated muscle during development, activity, and stress; transgenic mouse models. - Steven R. Van Doren
Structural biology: NMR investigations of protein structure, dynamics and protein-protein interactions, particularly proteins important in inflammatory diseases. - Gary A. Weisman
Nucleotide receptors and signaling in inflammation, cardiovascular and autoimmune exocrine disease. - Xiaoqin Zou
Protein-ligand interactions, protein-protein interactions, computer-aided drug design and modeling of quantitative structure-function relationships of membrane proteins.
