Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Faculty Research Interests
Natalie L. Adolphi, Ph.D. use of magnetic nanoparticles for disease detection and therapy, and nanoparticle physical properties, such as size and surface charge, affect the interaction of nanoparticles with cells and organisms.
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, MD, 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 P. 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.