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The research interests of the Faculty cover a wide variety of specialties in many areas of basic biomedical research. Being located at Tufts Medical School with close ties to the Tufts New England Medical Center, all the research interests of our program members are disease related. Below, the research specialties of the faculty are grouped both according to their field in Basic Biomedical Research and Disease Related Research.

   


   


Basic Biomedical Research


   

Disease Related Research

Structural Biology
Cancer
Cell Signaling
Infectious Disease
Replication and Gene Expression
Cardiovascular Disease
Drug Design & Medicinal Chemistry
Diabetes

Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease


Basic Biomedical Research:

Structural Biology:


James D. Baleja
NMR of macromolecules, Biophysics of molecular interactions

Andrew Bohm Protein Crystallography, Modeling, Drug Design/Docking

Brian S. Schaffhausen NMR of macromolecules

Bill Bachovchin, Small molecule and macromolecular NMR, Drug design

Peter Bullock
Molecular modeling

David Stollar
NMR structure determination of the pre-B cell receptor


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Cell Signaling


Amy S. Yee
Transcriptional regulation in response to cell growth and differentiation signals

Larry A. Feig
Ras signaling in the control of cell proliferation, calcium signaling in neurons

Brian Schaffhausen Mechanism of neoplastic transformation, signal transduction

Athan Kuliopulos
Signaling of protease activated receptors (PARs)

Akiko Hata
Regulation of cell growth and development

Eric Paulson
Reactive Oxygen Species Signaling in Mitogenesis and Tumorigenesis

Jim Baleja The regulation of cellular location of signaling proteins

Michael Forgac
pH control of intracellular compartments in eukaryotes

Philip Hinds The retinoblastoma protein pathway in differentiation, senesence and cancer

Michael Mendelsohn
Molecular signaling mechanisms in vascular biology


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Replication and Regulation of Gene Expression


Peter Bullock
Initiation of DNA replication and the control of this process

Akiko Hata
Transcriptional Regulation of growth factors

Gavin Schnitzler
Function of human chromatin remodeling complexes in transcriptional  control.

Andrew Bohm Structural basis for processing and polyadenylation of messenger RNA

Brian Schaffhausen Mechanism of neoplastic transformation

Amy Yee
Transcriptional regulation in response to cell growth and differentiation signals

Claire L. Moore
mRNA processing and its role in the regulation of gene expression

Philip Hinds
The retinoblastoma protein pathway in differentiation, senesence and cancer


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Drug Design and Medicinal Chemistry


Bill Bachovchin Synthetic chemistry, boronic acid protease inhibitors, smart  drugs

Jim Baleja
Design of inhibitors of protein-protein interactions

Andrew Bohm
Lead identification by computational docking and structure-assisted drug design

Athan Kuliopulos Pepducin inhibitors of 7TM receptors

Peter Bullock Peptides designed to interact with nucleic acids


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Disease Related Research

Cancer


Brian Schaffhausen Mechanism of neoplastic transformation

Amy Yee Transcriptional regulation in response to cell growth and differentiation signals

Eric Paulson Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Signaling in Mitogenesis and Tumorigenesis

Larry Feig How Ras proteins contribute to oncogenesis, Ras-GTPases in breast cancer

Gavin Schnitzler Function of human chromatin remodeling complexes in transcriptional  control

Jim Baleja Cervical dysplasia and cancer

Peter Bullock Role of DNA replication as it pertains to cell cycle regulation and DNA repair

Philip Hinds The retinoblastoma protein pathway in differentiation, senesence and cancer


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Infectious Disease


Peter Bullock Virus propagation

Jim Baleja The E2 and E6 proteins of papillomavirus

Andrew Bohm
Identification of novel drugs targeting anthrax toxins.

Noorjahan Panjwani Carbohydrate-binding proteins in pathogenic mechanisms


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Cardiovascular Disease


Akiko Hata Mechanism of pulmonary hypertension

Athan Kuliopulos Signaling of protease activated receptors (PARs)

Jim Baleja Molecular interactions made by Coagulation Factor VIII

Michael Mendelsohn Molecular signaling mechanisms in vascular biology


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Diabetes


Larry Feig Regulation of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1), stability by Ras family GTPases

Bill Bachovchin Design of new diabetes therapeutics


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Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease


David Stollar Lupus, inflamatory disease

Theoharis Theoharides mast cell stimulus-response coupling in allergic reactions, pathophysiology of inflammatory disorders

 


             
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