The Biochemistry faculty has a wide range of research interests from cell biology to molecular biophysics. Primary faculty have their main affiliation with the Department of Biochemistry and are based within the department. This includes faculty members in the Center for RNA Science and Therapeutics. Secondary faculty have their main affiliation with other departments or centers. Students can thus work in virtually any field in current biomedical research.
Secondary Faculty
| Faculty Member | Area of Research |
|---|---|
| Richard Aach | |
| Kristian Baker | Mechanisms of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. |
| Robert Bonomo | β-lactamases and antibiotic resistance. |
| Walter Boron | Regulation of intracellular pH, gas channels |
| David Buchner | Epigenetics, gene expression, obesity and diabetes, insulin signaling, glucose. |
| Vincent Hascall | Structure, function and metabolism of proteoglycans and hyaluronan in connective tissues. |
| Jonathan Karn | HIV, AIDS, transcription, chromatin, retroviral vectors. |
| Anton Komar | Protein synthesis, protein folding and translational control of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. |
| Vincent Monnier | Biochemistry of aging. |
| Paul Park | Mechanism of action of rhodopsin and other G protein-coupled receptors. |
| Jun Qin | Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy, signal transduction. |
| Parameswaran Ramakrishnan | Regulation of signal transduction in health and disease: autoimmune diabetes, inflammatory diseases and cancer. |
| Jonathan Stamler | Redox-based cellular regulation and signal transduction, and in particular the role of protein S-nitrosylation. |
| Khalid Sossey-Alaoui | Dr. Sossey-Alaoui research interests are in the area of studies of breast cancer, with special emphasis on Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) subtype. |
| Derek Taylor | Structure and molecular mechanisms of macromolecular machines involved in DNA maintenance and RNA maturation and biogenesis. |
| Saba Valadkhan | Role of the mammalian long non-coding RNAs in neurogenesis and cancer. |
| Jordan Winter | Adaptation of pancreatic cancer cells to a nutrient deprived microenvironment and other forms of cancer-associated stress |
| Akihiro Yoshida | High throughput sequencing technologies and cancer mouse models. |