The Faculty

Below is a list of Program Faculty and their Research Interests.
Click on their Names or Research Interests to learn more about them.

    In the Department of Biochemistry

Dafna Bar-Sagi, Ph.D. Signal Transduction In Growth Control And Cancer
James Borowiec, Ph.D. Regulation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication
Tony Huang, Ph.D. Regulation of Ubiquitination and Deubiquitination in DNA Repair and Cancer Susceptibility Pathways
Hannah L. Klein, Ph.D. Genome Instability and DNA Damage Checkpoints
Xiangpeng Kong, Ph.D. Structural Studies of DNA Replication Proteins
Evgeny A. Nudler, Ph.D. Transcription, the Central Step
in Gene Expression and Regulation
Danny Reinberg, Ph.D. Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells
Edward B. Ziff, Ph.D. Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Regulation

      In the Department of Cell Biology

Milton Adesnik, Ph.D. Control of Exocytotic and Endocytic Protein Transport
Moses Chao, Ph.D. Molecular Mechanisms of Trophic Factor Action
Pamela Cowin, Ph.D. Cell Adhesion and Wnt Signaling
Edward A. Fisher, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.D. The cell biology of hepatic lipid and lipoprotein metabolism
The molecular biology of vascular diseases
Alan B. Frey, Ph.D. T Cell Immune Responses
Gert Kreibich, Ph.D. Synthesis, Assembly and Sorting of
Membrane Proteins
Paolo Mignatti, M.D. Growth Factors and Proteinases
in Tumor Invasion and Angiogenesis
John S. Munger, M.D. Regulation of Pulmonary Inflammation and Fibrosis
Ralph Nixon, Ph.D., M.D. Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease
Mark Philips, M.D. Processing and Membrane Targeting of GTPases
Daniel B. Rifkin, Ph.D. Mechanisms of Cell Invasion
David Ron, M.D. Signaling Pathways in the Cellular Adaptation
to Proteotoxicity
Hyung Don Ryoo, Ph.D. Apoptosis and stress response in Drosophila
David D. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D. Protein Sorting in Eukaryotic Cells
James L. Salzer, M.D., Ph.D. Axon-Glia Interactions and Domain Organization
of Myelinated Axons
Tung-Tien Sun, Ph.D. Biochemistry of Epithelial Differentiation
E. Lynette Wilson, Ph.D. Biology of Stem Cells

     In the Department of Chemistry

Paramjit Arora, Ph.D. (1) Development of Peptidomimetics for the Regulation of Protein-Protein Interactions (2) Metal-Mediated Self-Assembling Peptides (3) Design of RNA and DNA Binding Ligands
Kent Kirshenbaum, Ph.D. Bioorganic Chemistry, Biomimetic Chemistry, Protein Conformation and Dynamics, Macromolecular Design

     In the Department of Microbiology

Joel Belasco, Ph.D. Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation
Robert Schneider, Ph.D. Altered Regulation of Gene Expression
in Carcinognesis and Cell Stress
Naoko Tanese, Ph.D. Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes

         In the Department of Pathology

Brian D. Dynlacht, Ph.D. Regulation of Mammalian Cell Cycle Progression
Michelle Krogsgaard, Ph.D. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Immunoregulatory Functions of Dendritic Cells
Michele Pagano, M.D. Regulation of the Mammalian Cell Cycle
and its Deregulation in Cancer
Angel Pellicer, M.D., Ph.D. Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes
Their Role in Tumorigenesis
Susan Smith, Ph.D. Molecular Basis of Telomere Function
E. Sergio Trombetta, Ph.D. Novel Imaging and Biophysical Methods to Understand the Structure and Function of T-Cell Recognition and Mechnisms of T-Cell Responses To Self

   In the Department of Pharmacology

Susan K. Logan, Ph.D. Cell Growth Regulation Through the Androgen Receptor
Herbert H. Samuels, M.D. Hormonal Regulation of Gene Expression