Faculty Research
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology investigators includes twenty-five faculty members who utilize state-of-the-art technology to study the biochemistry and molecular biology of cell and protein structure and function. The department has major strength in the following areas. Major strengths include cancer biology, protein structural biology, signal transduction, and cell cycle/DNA repair.
Cancer Biology
- Alex Drohat, PhD
- Rich Eckert, PhD (tumor suppressors, carcinogenesis/ chemoprevention, cell survival)
- Tom Hornyak, MD
- Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
- Jiayuh Lin, PhD
- A-Lien Lu-Chang, PhD
- S. Saif Hasan, PhD
- David Kaetzel, PhD
- Andrew Neuwald, PhD
- Jianfei Qi, PhD
- David Weber, PhD (S100 proteins, p53, melanoma)
- Gerald Wilson, PhD
Calcium Signaling in Heart and Muscle
- S. Saif Hasan, PhD
- Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
- Terry Rogers, PhD
- Martin Schneider, PhD
DNA Repair and Processing
Epigenetics
- Alex Drohat, PhD
- Rich Eckert, PhD
- Tom Hornyak, MD
- David Kaetzel, PhD
- A-Lien Lu-Chang, PhD
- Jianfei Qi, PhD
- Michal Zalzman, PhD
- Qun Zhou, PhD
Structure/Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
- Lindsay Black, PhD
- Alex Drohat, PhD
- S. Saif Hasan, PhD
- Mariusz Karbowski, PhD
- Joseph Lackowicz, PhD
- Wuyuan Lu, PhD
- A-Lien Lu-Chang, PhD
- Leonid Medved, ScD, PhD
- Andrew Neuwald, PhD
- Krishanu Ray PhD
- David Weber, PhD
- Gerald Wilson, PhD
Structural and Computational Biology
Surface Epithelial Biology
Technology Development - Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Vascular and Inflammatory Disease
Virology and Immunology
Cell Differentiation and Signal Transduction
- Rich Eckert, PhD (MAPK signaling, apoptosis, gene expression, transcription)
- Jianfei Qi, PhD
- Terry Rogers, PhD
- Martin Schneider, PhD
- Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
Stem Cell Biology
- David Kaetzel, PhD
- Tom Hornyak, MD
- A-Lien Lu-Chang, PhD
- Terry Rogers, PhD (cardiac)
- Rich Eckert, PhD (surface epithelial)
- Michal Zalzman, PhD
- Qun Zhou, PhD