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Faculty Research

William L. Anderson, Ph.D. – bioconjugate chemistry, biosensors, membrane bound enzyme arrays, biomedical education.

Marco Bisoffi, Ph.D. – mechanisms of cancer metastasis, androgen independence in prostate cancer, telomere biology.

Cristian Bologa, PH.D. - preclinical drug discovery, with focus on cheminformatics and screening informatics.

Robert H. Glew, Ph.D. – maternal/child health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, fatty acid metabolism, sickle cell anemia.

Jeffrey K. Griffith, Ph.D. – telomere biology, genetic polymorphisms and chromosome structure in cancer.

Chien-An Andy Hu, Ph.D. – apoptosis and cancer, p53 downstream targets, and proline metabolism.

Charlotte Mobarak, Ph.D. – application of proteomics to cancer research, cancer marker discovery.

Tudor Oprea, M.D., Ph.D. – drug Discovery, Drug Informatics, Cheminformatics, Machine Learning and QSAR, Lead and Probe Identification

Robert A. Orlando, Ph.D. – obesity and cardiovascular disease, LDL receptor family, proteoglycans, gender specific cancers.

Marcy Osgood, Ph.D. – biochemical education strategies, peer-assisted/cooperative learning techniques.

Karlett J. Parra, Ph.D. – metabolic/nutritional control of proton transport/cellular pH by V-type ATPase pumps, V-ATPase molecular motors structure/function/regulation.

Andrzej Pastuszyn, Ph.D. – protein sequencing, peptide synthesis, amino acid analysis, enzymology, vitamin D metabolism.

Robert Royer, Ph.D. – synthetic chemistry, molecular modeling, and structure-based drug design.

Vallabh "Raj" Shah, Ph.D. – population based translational research program in diabetes, renal and cardiovascular disease, including functional genomics, proteomics and epigenetics.

Laurel Sillerud, Ph.D. – prostate cancer, metabolic regulation in tumors, biomedical NMR, cancer metastasis.

Dorothy VanderJagt, Ph.D. - maternal/child health in sub-Saharan Africa, nutrition assessment, sickle cell anemia and body composition.

David VanderJagt, Ph.D. – structure-based drug design, molecular modeling, cancer research and diabetes research.