Tracy Handel, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: thandel@health.ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-822-6656
Biochemical, Biophysical, and Structural Pharmacology (BBSP) Program
The mission of the BBSP Program is to nucleate a campus-wide community focused on Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of medically important molecules and cellular processes. Although centered in the Department of Pharmacology, current members also include faculty from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, other Departments in the School of Medicine, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the Division of Biology and the School of Engineering. These faculty have a wide range of expertise in structural biology (cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, NMR), computational, structural, and systems biology, molecular modeling, dynamics and drug design, chemical biology, and state-of-the-art imaging. As illustrated by the image carousel, cell signaling is an overriding research theme addressed from many different angles and with a focus on many different types of macromolecular systems. In addition to establishing collaborations amongst the BBSP faculty, and training opportunities for BBSP students and postdoctoral fellows, the BBSP team seeks to collaborate with disease-focused programs in the Department of Pharmacology and apply biochemical and biophysical approaches to understand the mechanistic underpinnings of neurological disorders, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, inflammation and infectious diseases, and cancer and to develop therapeutic strategies to treat these diseases.
The mission of the BBSP Program is to nucleate a campus-wide community focused on Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of medically important molecules and cellular processes.
Program Director
Co-Directors
Susan S. Taylor, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Email: staylor@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-3677
Program Faculty
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