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Areas of Research

Graduate studies are offered in the following areas of research:

Molecular Genetics and Chemoprevention of Human Cancer:
Denmeade	Levis	Powell	Taverna
Dinkova-Kostova	Liu	Rudin	Yegnasubramanian
J. Isaacs	Nelson	Robinson	Vogelstein
W. Isaacs	Pan	Sukumar
Kinzler	Pienta	Talalay

Viral Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Oncognesis:
Ambinder	D. Hayward	Ray
Hardwick	Pitha-Rowe	Siliciano

Structural Bology and Dug Design:
Amzel	Dinkova-Kostova	J. Isaacs	Talalay
Cole	Greenberg	Levis	Taverna
Denmeade	Leahy	Stivers	Townsend

NMR Spectroscopy of Biomolecules:
Stivers	Taverna

Protein Design, Engineering:
Amzel	Greenberg	Robinson	Taverna
Cole	J. Isaacs	Stivers	Zhu

Gene Therapy:
Flexner	J. Isaacs	Pitha-Rowe
G. Hayward
Molecular Basis of Signal Transduction:
Cole	Levis	Robinson	Yegnasubramanian
Huganir	Liu	Snyder	Zhang
Inoue	Pan	Sukumar	Zhu
Leahy	Pienta	Taverna

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Molecular Mechanisms of Retroviral Immunosuppression:
Pitha-Rowe	Siliciano

Structure/Function of Cell Surface Proteins in Cell-Mediated Immunity and HIV Infection:
August

Vaccine Development:
August	Ray

Cell Surface Carbohydrates in Cell-Cell Interactions:
Schnaar

Protein Chemistry and Molecular Biology of Glycosyltransferases:
Taverna

Biomedical Application of Mass Spectrometry:
Bumpus	Cotter	Taverna

Clinical Pharmacology of Anti-infective Agents:
Dooley	Hendrix	Siliciano
Flexner	Shapiro

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Drug Delivery:
August	Meyers

Herpesvirus Gene Regulation and Latency:
D. Hayward	G. Hayward

Antiparasite Drug Development:
Meyers	Shapiro

Structure, Function and Biochemistry of Herpesvirus Proteins:
Gibson

Histone Acetylation and Gene Regulation:
Bumpus	Greenberg	Pienta	Zhu
Cole	Liu	Taverna

Melatonin and Circadian Rhythm:
Cole	Snyder

Drug Metabolism:
Barrow	Denmeade	Sukumar
Bumpus	Levis

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Vitamin D Pharmacology:


Natural Product Biosynthesis:
Meyers	Townsend

Cancer Immunology:
Jaffee

Telomerase and Chromosome Stability:
Greider	Taverna

T Cell Activation and Tolerance:
Liu	Ray	Powell

Intracellular Signal Transduction Pathways:
Dinkova-Kostova	Inoue	Liu	Pienta
Huganir	Levis	Pan	Sukumar

Enzymatic DNA Repair; DNA Topoisomerases:
Greenberg	Stivers	Yegnasubramanian

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Molecular Imaging:
Inoue	Robinson	Zhang
Pomper

Clinical Pharmacology of Cardiovascular Agents:
Abernethy

Cell Division:
Robinson	Taverna

Chemical Biology:
Barrow

Biochemical, Cell, and Animal Models of Neuropsychiatric Disease:
Ross

Drug Development for Brain Diseases:
Ross

Antimycobacterial Drug Development:
Dooley

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Organic and Medicinal Chemistry:
Barrow

Drug Discovery for the Central Nervous System:
Barrow

Drug Design:
Barrow

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