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All Drug Discovery and Therapeutics
![Cho, Jae-Hyun Cho, Jae-Hyun](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Jae-HyunCho-440x293-1.jpg)
Research Focus: protein-protein interactions, NMR, crystallography, structural biology, protein motion, inhibitor development, influenza virus, thermodynamics, kinetics
![Cruz-Reyes, Jorge Cruz-Reyes, Jorge](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/JorgeCruz-Reyes-440x293-1.jpg)
Research Focus: RNA editing and editosomes, trypanosome RNA biology, ribonucleoprotein complexes, small guide RNA, drug development
![Gohil, Vishal Gohil, Vishal](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/VishalGohil-1.jpg)
Research Focus: mitochondria, mitochondrial respiratory chain, metals, membranes, metabolism, mitochondrial disorders, copper, cardiolipin, elesclomol, menkes disease
![Liu, Wenshe Liu, Wenshe](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wenshe-scaled.jpeg)
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
![Meek, Thomas Meek, Thomas](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2024-02-01-165725.jpg)
Research Focus: Determine chemical mechanisms of enzymes which are essential to infectious organisms, rational design of enzyme inhibitors
![Pellois, Jean-Philippe Pellois, Jean-Philippe](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Jean-PhilippePellois-1024x683-1.jpg)
Research Focus: membrane biochemistry, molecular engineering and probe design, cellular delivery, cell injury and regeneration
![Sacchettini, James Sacchettini, James](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Jims-Headshot_AI2.jpg)
Research Focus: Drug discovery and disease-related structural biology, including Tuberculosis, Malaria, Cryptosporidiosis, Chagas disease, Cancer, and Menkes syndrome
![Safe, Stephen Safe, Stephen](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/dr_stephen_safe_in_lab32.jpg)
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
![Wand, Josh Wand, Josh](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/JoshWand3079-scaled.jpg)
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
![Young, Ry Young, Ry](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ry_Young-e1677188648221-1.jpg)
Research Focus: bacteriophage and bacterial molecular biology, membrane proteins, prokaryotic and phage bioinformatics and genomics, genetic engineering, phage therapeutics
![Zhang, Junjie Zhang, Junjie](https://bcbp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/junjiezhang_new-440x323-1.webp)
Research Focus: Translation in mycobacteria, intoxication and neutralization of the toxins from clostridium difficile, single-stranded RNA bacteriophages and their applications for RNA delivery