Molecular Medicine Faculty

Research Focus

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and developing strategies to avoid resistance.

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Understanding how Bacillus thuringiensis crystal proteins can be used to cure gastrointestinal nematodes.

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Investigating Drug Resistance in Oncogenes Using Protein Fitness Landscapes.

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Understanding computational systems biology and microbial ecology involving genomics and metagenomics.

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Defining Replication Stress and Therapy Response Outcomes Regulated by the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Pathway.

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Understanding Stress Signaling and Cancer.

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Identification and treatment of nosocomial infections, infections in the ICU setting, sepsis, and clinical care of patients with HIV disease.

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Translational Research in Leukemia.

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Preventing the transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms and implementing novel treatment guidelines to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage.

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Structural Studies of DNA Replication and Repair Proteins Involved in Cancer.

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Expanding our fundamental knowledge of this molecular machine to aid in the development of new drugs that target ribosomes.

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Cancer Systems Pharmacology.

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Elucidating Mechanisms of Tumor Initiation and Progression.

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Understanding viral replication, pathogenesis, and immunity.

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Microbial-Based Cancer Therapy.

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Tumor-Microbiome Interactions and Their Effects on Disease Progression and Treatment Success.

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Understanding and characterizing mechanisms of immune homeostasis in intestinal epithelial cells.

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Structural Analysis of Clinically Important Proteins.

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Defining the field of drug resistance and developing a framework to avoid drug resistance from the very initial design phase.

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Understanding how compounds secreted by microbes affect the survival of their microbial neighbors, and the stability and dynamics of complex microbial communities.

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Translational Therapeutics for Neuroblastoma and Other Aggressive Pediatric Solid Tumors.

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Utilize state-of-the-art structural biology techniques and interface with virology techniques to investigate virus structure versus infectivity, replication, and evolution.

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Understanding the use of chronic prescription medication by older adults, particularly in nursing home residents with advanced dementia and near the end of life.

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Microbiome and bacterial genomics.

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Drug resistance in viral proteases: Understanding the molecular basis of drug resistance in viral proteases, including HIV-1 and HCV protease.