Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Emilyn Alejandro, PhD
Developmental origins of insulin-producing beta-cell dysfunction

Tyler Bold, MD, PhD
Tuberculosis, vaccines
Advising Statement

Julia Davydova, MD, PhD
Gene therapy approaches for cancer and non-malignant diseases
Research video

Scott Dehm, PhD
Androgen receptor & prostate cancer
Advising Statement
Research video

Tanya Freedman, PhD
Immune cell signaling
Advising Statement
Research video

Melissa Gardner, PhD
Mitotic microtubule dynamics and spindle formation
Research video

Gunda Georg, PhD
Design, semisynthesis, total synthesis & evaluation of biologically active agents

Rocio Gomez-Pastor, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and cell death
Advising Statement

Wendy Gordon, PhD
Mechanotransduction

Alon Herschhorn, PhD
Mechanisms underlying virus-host interactions
Advising Statement

Kristin Hogquist, PhD
T cell development in the thymus

R. Stephanie Huang, PhD
Pharmacogenomics, computational drug nomination

Esther Krook-Magnuson, PhD
Brain circuitry & selective neuromodulation
Advising Statement
Research video

Carol Lange, PhD
Biology of steroid receptors in breast & ovarian cancers
Advising Statement
Research video

Anna Lee, PhD
Molecular basis of alcohol and nicotine addiction

Julia Lemos, PhD
Neural mechanisms of stress, motivation, emotion, movement & motor planning & coordination

Nicholas Levinson, PhD
Structural and dynamic basis for protein kinase function

Lou Mansky, PhD
Virology
Advising Statement
Research video

Branden Moriarity, PhD
Pediatric cancer genetics, gene and immunotherapy, genome engineering
Advising Statement

Hai Dang Nguyen, PhD
DNA damage response
Advising Statement
Research video

Laura Niedernhofer, MD, PhD
Impact of DNA damage on cell function & organism health
Research video

Laurie Parker, PhD
Assay development for post-translational modifications

William Pomerantz, PhD
Modulating protein-protein interactions, development of epigenetic inhibitor therapies

Patrick Rothwell, PhD
Modulation of striatal circuits in health and disease
Advising Statement

Hai-Bin Ruan, PhD
Metabolic processes in health and disease
Advising Statement

Kaylee Schwertfeger, PhD
Breast cancer microenvironment
Advising Statement

Michael Sheedlo, PhD
Interactions at the host-pathogen interface
Advising Statement

Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan, PhD
Linking collective protein interactions to cellular function

Pamela Skinner, PhD
HIV and prion disease immunopathogenesis

Sade Spencer, PhD
Neural mechanisms that underlie the development of drug addiction and relapse
Advising Statement

Laura Stone, PhD
Mechanisms of pain, epigenetic regulation of chronic pain
Research video

Ingunn Stromnes, PhD
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Advising Statement

Natalia Tretyakova, PhD
Chemical carcinogenesis and DNA repair

Lucy Vulchanova, PhD
Mechanisms underlying persistent pain
Advising Statement

Beau Webber, PhD
Genome editing, immunotherapy/gene therapy, stem cells

Kevin Wickman, PhD
Mechanisms controlling the excitability of cells in the heart and brain
Advising Statement

Jesse Williams, PhD
Myeloid cells in the pathogenesis of metabolic & cardiovascular diseases
Advising Statement

Masato Yamamoto, MD, PhD
Cancer gene therapy and virotherapy
Advising Statement

Doug Yee, MD
Breast cancer