Faculty and Their Research
Yeager, Mark J -- Professor and Chairman; M.D., Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine 1979. Cardiac Gap Junction Membrane Channels / Integrins Water Channels / Rotavirus / Reovirus / Retrovirus
Al-Shawi, Marwan - Associate Professor of Research, Ph.D.
Bushweller, John H -- Professor; Ph.D., University of California- Berkeley , 1990.Protein structure and dynamics by NMR spectroscopy
Derewenda, Urszula- Assistant Professor of Research, Ph.D.
Derewenda, Zygmunt —Professor, Ph.D., University of Lodz (Poland ), 1981Protein structure and function; macromolecular crystallography; mechanisms of signalingby small GTPases; protein-protein interactions.
Duling, Brian R -- Robert Berne Professor; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1967. Cell-cell communication processes coordinating paranchymal cell function and vascular function in mammalian organisms.
Hackett, John T -- Professor; Ph.D., Illinois Medical Center , 1969.Clarifying the final steps leading to neurosecretion using electrophysiological techniques.
Kutchai, Howard -- Professor; Ph.D., University of California , San Franscisco, 1967.Regulation of ion-transporting ATPases, including the Ca-ATPases of sarcoplasmic reticulaand Na,K-ATPases of plasma membranes.
Minor, Wladek -- Professor; Ph.D., University of Warsaw (Poland ), 1978.Structure-function relation in proteins and virus X-ray crystallography, and X-ray instrumentation.
Nakamoto, Robert -- Professor and Vice-Chairman ; Ph.D., University of Maryland , 1985.Structures and mechanisms involved in active transport.
Owens, Gary -- Professor; Ph.D., Penn State , 1979.Molecular regulation of growth and differentiation of vascular smooth muscle duringdevelopment and in vascular disease.
Shao, Zhifeng-- Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988.Cryo atomic force microscopy for biology: a new structural approach.
Somlyo, Avril-- Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania , 1976.Signaling pathways regulating contraction in smooth muscle, migration and metastisis in malignant cells.
Szabo, Gabor -- Charles Slaughter Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1969.Signal transduction in cell membranes; molecular mechanisms of the modulation of ion conductive channels; regulation of cell membrane permeability.
Tamm, Lukas K -- Professor; Ph.D., University of Basel (Switzerland ), 1982.Structure and folding of membrane proteins. Membrane fusion in virus infection and cellular vesicle transport.
Wiener, Michael C -- Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Carnegie Mellon, 1988.X-ray crystallography of integral membrane proteins.
Secondary Appointments:
Cafiso, David- Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1979. Work in our laboratory is directed at studying membranes and membrane proteins
Laubach, Victor E -- Associate Professor of Research; Ph.D., George Washington University , 1993. Mechanisms of compensatory lung growth and pulmonary ischemia/reperfusion injury.
McNamara, Coleen - Associate Professor, M.D., Understanding the role of helix-loop-helix transcription regulators in vascular lesion formation.
Moorman, J Randall -- Professor; M.D., University of Mississippi , 1978.Molecular biology of ion channels; mathematical analysis of heart-rate variability.
Shupnik, Margaret -- Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin , 1978.Hormonal modulation of pituitary gene transcription.
Theodorescu, Dan -- Professor; M.D., Ph.D., University of Toronto Molecular control of tumor-induced angiogenesis.
Tucker, Amy- Associate Professor, M.D., The role of adenosine in cardiac protection and angiogenesis. Primary Division of Cardiology