FACULTY
ADJUNCT FACULTY
SECONDARY FACULTY
Ben Black
Britton Chance
William DeGrado
Bohdana Discher
Gideon Dreyfuss
Les Dutton
S. Walter Englander
Roland Kallen
Mark Lemmon
Mitchell Lewis
Paul Liebman
Kristen W. Lynch
Franz Matschinsky
Jeanne Myers
Hillary Nelson
Tomoko Ohnishi
Anna Pastuszko
Kim Sharp
James Shorter
Cecilia Tommos
Jane Vanderkooi
Gregory Van Duyne
Sergei Vinogradov
A. Joshua Wand
Annemarie Weber
David Wilson
Takashi Yonetani
Robert A. Copeland, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, EpiZyme, Inc.
840 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 401-8261 (office)
(617) 909-0858 (blackberry)
email: rcopeland@epizymebio.com
Nicolai Doliba, Ph.D., D.Sc.
University of Pennsylvania
the role of bioenergetics, ion transport and metabolic coupling factors in nutrient-and drug-stimulated insulin release at normal conditions and during diabetes mellitus
email: nicolai@mail.med.upenn.eduRoland L. Dunbrack, Ph.D.
Member, Fox Chase Cancer Center
development of methods for protein structure prediction by homology using Bayesian statistics; application of these methods to proteins of biological and clinical interest
email:RL_Dunbrack@fccc.eduRobert Fairman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology, Haverford College
protein folding and protein design
email: rfairman@haverford.eduRonald H. Hoess, Ph.D.
retired from DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company
email: hoessr@earthlink.netKathleen Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swarthmore College
studying the structure and dynamics of membrane-bound biomolecules using primarily NMR and EPR spectroscopies
email: khoward1@swarthmore.eduJoseph T. Jarrett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
enzyme-based radicals; biotin synthesis
jtj@hawaii.eduRonen Marmorstein, Ph.D.
Wistar Institute Professor, The Wistar Institute
structure and biochemistry in transcription, protein-DNA recognition, cell-cycle, tumor suppressors, and viral oncoproteins
email:marmor@wistar.orgItzhak Nissam, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Investigation of the mechanisms regulating metabolic function in normal and disease states
tel: 215-590-3392
fax: 215-590-5199
ssitz@mail.med.upenn.edu
Heinrich Roder, Ph.D.
Senior Member, Fox Chase Cancer Center
protein folding, structure and dynamics, NMR and optical spectroscopy
email:roder@fccc.eduEmmanuel Skordalakes, Ph.D
Wistar Institute Assistant Professor, The Wistar Institute
X-ray crystallography; telomere biology; cancer and aging
email: skorda@wistar.orgDavid W. Speicher, Ph.D.
Wistar Institute Professor, The Wistar Institute
development of novel technologies to study proteome changes associated with metastases of human cancers; structure-function of membrane proteins
email:speicher@wistar.org
Paul H. Axelsen, M.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Biophysics of molecular recognition, seeking to understand how pharmacologically active molecules recognize their target sites of action, and how they accomplish their function after binding to their target site.
105 Johnson Pavilion
131 John Morgan Building
tel: 215-898-9238
fax: 215-573-9135
email: axe@pharm.med.upenn.eduKathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine
Tetraspanin protein structure and role in degenerative disease processes.
tel: 215-898-9167
fax: 215-898-3695
email: battagli@biochem.dental.upenn.eduFevzi Daldal, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport chains in bacteria: structure, function, regulation and biogenesis of cytochromes and cytochrome complexes
103B Lynch Laboratory
tel: 215-898-4394
fax: 215-898-8780
email: fdaldal@sas.upenn.eduZoltan Domotor, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences
Methodology of scientific inquiry in biological research, theoretical foundations of biology, and applications of logical and probabilistic models in biology
433 Logan Hall
tel: 215-898-6347
fax: 215-898-5576
email: zdomotor@sas.upenn.eduJerry D. Glickson, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Radiology, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging
The Laboratory of Molecular Imaging is developing NMR and optical imaging probes for the detection and/or treatment of cancer and heart disease and for elucidating metabolism and physiology in animal models of human disease and in human subjects.
B6 Stellar-Chance Labs
tel: 215-898-1805
fax: 215-573-2113
email: glickson@mail.med.upenn.edu
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging homepageYale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology
Director, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Molecular motors and ribosomes studied by single molecule microscopy and laser tweezers
D700 Richards Building
tel: 215-898-4017
fax: 215-898-2653
email: goldmany@mail.med.upenn.eduJonas S. Johansson, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Structural aspects of volatile general anesthetic binding sites on proteins and the effects of bound anesthetic on protein structure and dynamics.
319C John Morgan Building
tel: 215-349-5472
fax:215-349-5078
email: JohanssJ@uphs.upenn.eduNicholas A. Kefalides, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Connective Tissue Research Institute
Biochemistry, cell biology and molecular biology of extracellular matrix
3701 Market Street, Rm. 468
Science Center Port
tel: 215-966-6102
fax: 215-966-6101
email: kefalide@mail.med.upenn.eduItzhak Nissim, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Pediatrics
Investigation of the mechanism(s) regulating metabolic function in normal and diseased states.
Department of Pediatrics
510C Abramson Research Building
tel: 215-590-3392
fax: 215-590-5199
email: ssitz@mail.med.upenn.eduTrevor M. Penning, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Structure-function of aldo-keto reductases (genes and enzymes): roles in steroid hormone action and chemical carcinogenesis
130C John Morgan Building
tel: 215-898-9445/1186
fax: 215-573-2236
email: penning@pharm.med.upenn.eduRavi Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Computational biology; molecular origin of cancer, cancer therapeutics and drug delivery using theoretical and computational tools at the molecular and system level
310 Hayden Hall
tel: 215-898-0487
fax: 215-573-2071
email: rradhak@seas.upenn.eduNorman M. Schechter, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Dermatology
Understanding the structure, function and regulation of serine proteases from inflammatory cells. Establishing the mechanism protease inhibition by proteins of the serpin family.
240 Clinical Research Building
tel: 215-898-3680
fax: 215-573-2033
email: schechte@mail.med.upenn.eduFelix W. Wehrli, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
MRI of tissue microstructure and function, mathematical modeling, image processing
1 Founders Pavilion
tel: 215-662-7951
fax: 215-349-5925
email: wehrli@oasis.rad.upenn.eduFrank A. Welsh, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry in Surgery
Molecular mechanisms of ischemic brain damage; pathways of inducible neuroprotection
371 Stemmler Hall
tel: 215-662-7925
fax: 215-349-8157
email: fwelsh@mail.med.upenn.edu