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AFFILIATIONS: Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery |
Gary J. Pielak |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My graduate students and I use the formalism of equilibrium thermodynamics and the tools of molecular biology and biophysics to understand how nature designs proteins.,My graduate students and I use t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Structural Biology |
William Polacheck, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Polacheck Laboratory for Translational Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers who build microfluidic models of human tissues and organs-on-chip. Our organizi … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
Kent Rossman, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our group studies the signaling and structural mechanisms employed by RAS superfamily GTPases to regulate critical cellular processes (e.g., proliferation, motility, morphogenesis and apoptosis) and h … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Surgery |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology |
Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We have three main areas of research focus: (1) Nucleotide excision repair: The only known mechanism for the removal of bulky DNA adducts in humans. (2) DNA damage checkpoints: Biochemical pathways t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Molecular Biology |
Greg Scherrer, PharmD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The primary mission of my laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie pain perception and its modulation by opioids. We investigate the sensory, affective, and cognitive dimensions of pain … Read more |
Matthew Sharrock, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I work at the confluence of acute neurological injury, clinical informatics and clinical trials. My research looks at utilizing informatics processes and tools to make clinical trials in patients with … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neurology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Clinical Informatics, Clinical Trials, Physiology |
Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research group is interested in developing and applying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technologies to study brain functional circuits and networks using animal models. We foc … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
Kevin Slep |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab examines cytoskeletal dynamics, the molecules that regulate it and the biological processes it is involved in using live cell imaging, in vitro reconstitution and x-ray crystallography. Of pa … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Structural Biology |
John Sondek, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our laboratory studies signal transduction systems controlled by heterotrimeric G proteins as well as Ras-related GTPases using a variety of biophysical, biochemical and cellular techniques. Member of … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling, Structural Biology |
Chrystal Starbird, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My lab studies the structural basis of receptor tyrosine kinase activation, with an initial focus on TAM receptors. Specifically, we are interested in understanding the role membrane lipids play in TA … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, Immunology, Pharmacology, Structural Biology |
Brian D. Strahl, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Eukaryotic genomes are packaged into the nuclei of cells through the actions of histone proteins. These proteins not only play a role in condensing the genome but are fundamental to establishing and m … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Computational Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, HIV/AIDS, Microbiology, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Organismal Biology, Stem Cells, Structural Biology |








