Graduate Program Faculty and their Research Interests

• William W. Bachovchin, Ph.D. - Professor & Director of Tufts Biological NMR Center  - email  Serine proteinases: structure, mechanism and biological functions; NMR spectroscopy; design of synthetic agents to manipulate T cells.
• James D. Baleja, Ph.D. - Associate Professor - email Molecular recognition; protein structure determination using NMR; structure-based drug design.
• Rob Blaustein, M.D., Ph.D. - email - Assistant Professor of Medicine.
• Alex Andrew Bohm, Ph.D. - Associate Professor - email X-ray crystallography; Structure and function of polyadenylation factors; Drug design; Anthrax toxins. 
• Peter A. Bullock, Ph.D. - Professor - email  Structure-based studies of the initiation of DNA replication and transformation by DNA tumor viruses. Isolation of viral inhibitors using chemical-genetics based approaches.
• Lidija Covic, Ph.D - Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Daniel Cox, Ph.D. - email Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.
• Alexei Degterev - Assistant Professor - email Probing mechanisms of cell death using chemical, biochemical and cell biology tools.
• Larry A. Feig, Ph.D. - Professor - email Signal transduction pathways mediated by RAS and related GTPases; function of RAS in neuronal calcium signaling.
• Michael Forgac, Ph.D. - Professor of Physiology - email  Mechanism by which eukaryotic cells control the pH of their intracellular compartments.
• Akiko Hata, Ph.D. - Associate Professor - email  Signaling pathways in vertebrate development.
• Ekaterina Heldwein, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology email Structural and mechanistic studies of herpesvirus entry into host cells.
• Philip W. Hinds, Ph.D. - Professor of Radiation Oncology - email The retinoblastoma protein pathway in differentiation, senesence and cancer
• Athan Kuliopulos, Ph.D., M.D. - Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology Division) and Biochemistry - email Signaling of protease activated receptors (PARs).
• John Kyriakis, Ph.D. - email - Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
• Michael E. Mendelsohn, M.D. - Professor of Molecular Cardiology and Medicine - email
• Claire Moore, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology - email Molecular mechanism and regulation of mRNA 3' end formation in eukaryotic cells; genetic and biochemical characterization of factors catalyzing polyadenylation and transcription termination.
• Noorjahan Panjwani, Ph.D. - Professor of Opthamology and Biochemistry - email Carbohydrate-binding proteins in pathogenic mechanismsof corneal wound healing and infection.
• K. Eric Paulson, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology - email Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Signaling in Mitogenesis and Tumorigenesis
• Brian S. Schaffhausen, Ph.D. - Department Chair and Professor - email  Mechanism of neoplastic transformation; genetic and biochemical analysis of protein modifications; signal transduction.
• Gavin R. Schnitzler, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor - email  Function of human chromatin remodeling complexes in transcriptional  control.
• Theoharis C. Theoharides, Ph.D., M.D. - Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry - email  Molecular events involved in mast cell stimulus-response coupling in allergic reactions and in the pathophysiology of inflammatory disorders
• Philip Tsichlis - email - Professor of Immunology.
• Amy S. Yee, Ph.D. - Professor - email  Molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in response to cell growth and differentiation signals.

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Associated Faculty 

• Wei-Min Hou, Ph.D - email Research Assistant Professor -Structure and Function of phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase 1 (PDK1)
Roy L. Kisliuk, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry - email Design and evaluation of new antifolates as inhibitors of the key folate enzymes dihydrofolate reductase and thymidylate synthase
• Norman I. Krinsky, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry - email Metabolism of carotenoids to retinoids and retinoic acid. Role of carotenoids in human vision and in the development of lung cancer.
• Jack Lai, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor - email Discovery and development of small molecule based inhibitors against cancer and diabetes based on NMR, molecular modeling techniques and organic chemistry.
• Nanette R. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry - email  Molecular mechanism of peptide hormone control of steroid hormone biosynthesis
• Ananda L. Roy, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry - email  Mechanisms how growth-promoting and antigenic signals regulate gene expression
• David G. Sanford, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor - email
• Louis Shuster, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology - email Mechanisms of hepatotoxicity from cocaine and opiates
• B. David Stollar, M.D. - Professor Emeritus - email  Immunochemistry of nucleic acids; autoimmunity; immunoglobulin genes and B-cell development; antigen binding by recombinant antibody fragments.
• James L. Sudmeier, Ph.D. - Senior Lecturer & Associate Director of Tufts Biological NMR Center - email 
• Allen Taylor, Ph.D. - Senior Scientist HNRC and Professor of Biochemistry - email Relationships between oxidative stress, protein metabolism, nutrient intake, and risk for cataract and age-related retinopathy
• Xiang-Dong Wang, M.D., Ph.D. - Scientist II HNRC and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - email Molecular mechanisms underlying the modulation of cancer development by carotenoids and retinoids