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Jae-Hyun Cho
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: protein-protein interactions, NMR, crystallography, structural biology, protein motion, inhibitor development, influenza virus, thermodynamics, kinetics
Jorge Cruz-Reyes
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Genetics
Research Focus: RNA editing and editosomes, trypanosome RNA biology, ribonucleoprotein complexes, small guide RNA, drug development
Vishal Gohil
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: mitochondria, mitochondrial respiratory chain, metals, membranes, metabolism, mitochondrial disorders, copper, cardiolipin, elesclomol, menkes disease
Wenshe Liu
Harry E. Bovay Jr. Endowed Chair, Chemistry; Professor, Chemistry, Translational Medical Sciences, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cell Biology and Genetics; Director, Texas A&M Drug Discovery Center
Research Focus: COVID-19 drug discovery, chromatin biology, cancer epigenetics, posttranslational histone modifications, cancer drug discovery, the genetic code expansion, medicinal chemistry, structural biology, chemical biology
Thomas Meek
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: Determine chemical mechanisms of enzymes which are essential to infectious organisms, rational design of enzyme inhibitors
Jean-Philippe Pellois
Associate Head for Research
Research Focus: membrane biochemistry, molecular engineering and probe design, cellular delivery, cell injury and regeneration
James Sacchettini
Rodger J. Wolfe-Welch Foundation Chair, Science; Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry
Research Focus: Drug discovery and disease-related structural biology, including Tuberculosis, Malaria, Cryptosporidiosis, Chagas disease, Cancer, and Menkes syndrome (NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS)
Stephen Safe
University Distinguished Professor, Syd Kyle Chair, Veterinary Medicine Professor, Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Research Focus: drug repositioning for cancer chemotherapy, NR4A receptor biology, NR4A1 ligand development and discovery, Ah receptor biology, Ah receptor ligand development and discovery, endometriosis, childhood cancers, glioblastoma
Josh Wand
University Distinguished Professor and Head, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Research Focus: molecular recognition, drug discovery, protein dynamics, NMR spectroscopy, thermodynamics, protein engineering, protein biologics, ubiquitin E3 ligases, parkin, membrane proteins, prostate cancer, Parkinson’s disease (NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS)
Ry Young
University Distinguished Professor; Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Biology
Research Focus: bacteriophage and bacterial molecular biology, membrane proteins, prokaryotic and phage bioinformatics and genomics, genetic engineering, phage therapeutics (NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS)
Junjie Zhang
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: Translation in mycobacteria, intoxication and neutralization of the toxins from clostridium difficile, single-stranded RNA bacteriophages and their applications for RNA delivery