Drug Design and Development

Michael Airola, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Structural biology of lipid modifying enzymes

Elizabeth Boon,  Professor, Chemistry,  Nitric oxide signaling bacteria and regulation of biofilm formation

Yusuf A. Hannun,  Professor, Medicine, Bioactive lipids in cancer pathogenesis and therapeutics

Martin Kaczocha,  Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Role of fatty acid binding proteins in pain, inflammation, and related pathophysiologies: Endocannabinoid pharmacology and development of novel therapeutics.

Robert Rizzo, Professor, Applied Math and Statistics, Structure-based drug design using computational methods; docking, molecular dynamics, virtual screening

Markus  Seeliger,Professor, Pharmacology,  Mechanism of protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases in cancer and aging

Jessica Seeliger, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology

Eugene Serebryany, Assistant Professor and Biophysics and the Laufer Center, Protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and conformation-phenotype relationships; disulfide bonds and protein chemistry; single-molecule protein sequencing; protein and peptide libraries.

Carlos Simmerling, Professor, Chemistry, Computational structural biology: to accurately simulate known properties of molecules, assist in the refinement and interpretation of experimental data and predict the results of future experiments

Peter Tonge, Professor, Chemistry,  How proteins control and modulate the properties of small molecule ligands