Faculty Research

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology investigators include 25 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 strengths in the following areas: cancer biology, protein structural biology, signal transduction, and cell cycle/DNA repair.

Cancer Biology

• Alex Drohat, PhD
• Tom Hornyak, MD
• Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
• Jiayuh Lin, PhD
• S. Saif Hasan, 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
• Martin Schneider, PhD

DNA Repair and Processing

• Alex Drohat, PhD
• Michal Zalzman, PhD

Epigenetics

• Alex Drohat, PhD
• Tom Hornyak, MD
• Jianfei Qi, PhD
• Michal Zalzman, PhD

Structure/Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

• Alex Drohat, PhD
• S. Saif Hasan, PhD
• Mariusz Karbowski, PhD
• Joseph Lackowicz, PhD
• Wuyuan Lu, PhD
• Leonid Medved, ScD, PhD
• Andrew Neuwald, PhD
• Krishanu Ray PhD
• David Weber, PhD
• Gerald Wilson, PhD

Structural and Computational Biology

• Alex Drohat, PhD
• S. Saif Hasan, PhD
• Leonid Medved, ScD, PhD
• Andrew Neuwald, PhD
• David Weber, PhD

Surface Epithelial Biology

• Tom Hornyak, MD

Technology Development - Fluorescence Spectroscopy

• Joseph Lackowicz, PhD
• Krishanu Ray PhD
• Richard Thompson, PhD
• David Weber, PhD

Vascular and Inflammatory Disease

• Natalya Ananyeva, PhD
• Jim Du, PhD
• Leonid Medved, ScD, PhD

Virology and Immunology

• S. Saif Hasan, PhD
• Wuyuan Lu, PhD
• Krishanu Ray PhD

Cell Differentiation and Signal Transduction

• Jianfei Qi, PhD
• Martin Schneider, PhD
• Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD

Stem Cell Biology

• Tom Hornyak, MD
• Michal Zalzman, PhD

BioMedical Ethics

• Adil Shamoo