Research and Faculty

The following is a brief description of the faculty and their research. Please select any member in order to get a more complete description or to obtain contact information.

Faculty

• Joseph A. Adams, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, Signal  Protein Kinases, Enzyme Catalysis and Regulation.
• Katerina Akassoglou, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Extracellular Proteolysis, Fibrin, Regeneration, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurotrophins
• Philip E. Bourne, Professor; Ph.D., Flinders University of South Australia, Biological Databases; Data Mining; Computational Methods; Protein Kinases.
• Joan Heller Brown, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, G-Protein Coupled Receptors; Gq and G12; Rho; Cell Proliferation and Hypertrophy.
• Laurence L. Brunton, Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia, Transmembrane Signalling; Cyclic Nucleotides; Protein Kinases; Cardiac Myocytes.
• Edward A. Dennis, Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University; Biochemistry: Phospholipase A₂, Singal Transduction in Macrophages, Mechanism, Prostaglandin Regulation, Mass Spec of Lipids and Proteins.
• Jack E. Dixon, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (PTPases), Bacterial Pathogenesis
• Sylvia M. Evans, Professor; Ph.D., University of British Columbia; Adult Heart Disease, Heart Development, Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiac Lineages, Stem Cell
• James R. Feramisco, Professor; Ph.D., California, Davis, Cell Biology; Molecular Biology; Oncogenes; Growth Control Mechanisms; Signal Transduction; Cellular Oncogenes; Protein Kinases.
• Kun-Liang Guan, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University; Phosphorylation, signal transduction, tumor suppressor, mTOR, TSC, Hippo
• Vivian Y.H. Hook, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Peptide Neurotransmitters, Proteases, Protease Inhibitors, Protein Biochemistry, Neurodegenerative Disease, Proteomics
• Paul A. Insel, Professor; M.D., Michigan, Catecholamines; Protein Kinase C; G-Proteins; Signal Transduction.
• Michael Karin, Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, Gene Expression; Signal Transduction; Transcription Factors; Oncogenes; Protein Kinases.
• Hyam L. Leffert, Professor; M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Gene Expression; Growth Factors; Liver Regeneration; Carcinogenesis; Gene Therapy; Heavy Metal Toxicity, Stem Cells, Transplantation Immunology.
• J. Andrew McCammon, Professor; Ph.D., Harvard, Computer-aided Molecular Design; Theory of Molecular Recognition.
• Alexandra C. Newton, Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, Protein Kinase C; Signal Transduction; Membrane Biochemistry.
• Morton P. Printz, Professor; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, Molecular Genetics; Angiotensin; Bradykinin; Hypertension; Stress Neural Mechanisms.
• Palmer Taylor, Professor; Ph.D., Wisconsin, Neuropharmacology; Gene Expression; Cholinergic Receptors; Acetylcholinesterase.
• Susan Taylor, Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Protein kinases/signal rransduction: structure/function and localization; biophysics; crystallography; NMR, fluorescence/FRET.
• Roger Y. Tsien, Professor; Ph.D., Cambridge, Signal Transduction; Calcium; Neurobiology; Regulation and Role of Messengers Such as Calcium, Cyclic AMP, and Nitric Oxide.
• Robert H. Tukey, Professor; Ph.D., Iowa, Use of  Recombinant DNA to Characterize Rabbit and Human Cytochromes P-450.
• Tony L. Yaksh, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, Opioid Pharmacology; Analgesics; Pain.
• Jing Yang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Duke, Tumor Metastasis, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), Twist.

Adjunct Faculty

• Imran M. Khan, Assistant Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Medicine, Univer. of So. Carolina.
• Tammy M. Seasholtz, Assistant Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Medical College of Pennsylvania, Cell Proliferation and Migration in Vascular Disease and Cancer; Small G Proteins, Nitric Oxide Signaling.
• David S. Williams, Adjunct  Professor; Ph.D., Australian National University Photoreceptor cells; Actin Cytoskeleton; Myosin; Rhodopsin; Phosphorylation; Signal Transduction.

Associated Faculty

• Robert T. Abraham, (Burnham Institute) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Cancer Chemotherapy; mTor Signaling
• Tamas Bartfai, (Scripps Research Institute) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Stockholm University, Neuropeptides, Molecular Basis of Cognition, Inflammation and Fever
• Anne Killam Bonneville, (Neurocrine Biosciences) Assistant Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Arizona
• Jerold J. M. Chun, (Scripps Research Institute) Adjunct Professor; M.D./Ph.D., Stanford, Molecular Development Neurobiology; Cortical Development; Programmed Cell Death; Bioactive Lipid Signalling.
• Stanley T. Crooke, (ISIS Pharmaceuticals) Adjunct Professor; M.D., Ph.D., Baylor, Antisense Oligonucleotides.
• Pedro Cuatrecasas, (Parke Davis/Warner Lambert Co.) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, Drug Development; Mechanism of Hormone Action.
• Ronald M. Evans, (Salk Institute) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, Steroid Receptors; Transcription; Gene Regulation.
• Charles F. Stevens, (Salk Institute)Adjunct Professor; M.D., Yale; Ph.D., Rockefeller, Synaptic Transmission; Receptors; Memory.
• Lynn F. TenEyck, (San Diego Supercomputer Center) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Princeton, Protein Interactions; Crystallography; Computational Chemistry.
• Volker Vallon, (UCSD Dept of Medicine) Associate Adjunct Professor; M.D., University of Tuebingen, Renal Physiology; Potassium Channels; Tubuloglomerular feedback system.
• J. Craig Venter, (Ctr for Adv of Genomics) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., UCSD, Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Genome Analysis in Relation to Biological Function and Evolution
• Gennady Verkhivker, (Pfizer/Agouron Pharmaceuticals) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Nat'l Acd of Sci, Moscow-Russia, Structure-based Drug and Inhibitor Design.
• John C. Wooley, (UCSD) Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, Bioinformatics; Pharmacogenomics; Structural Genomics; Computational Biology.

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