Doug Kojetin
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Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center names Tansey, Kojetin to leadership team
Vanderbilt-Ingram names William Tansey associate director for Shared Resources and Douglas Kojetin as co-leader of the Genome Maintenance Research Program. The Genome Maintenance Research Program is focused on understanding how DNA is damaged, repaired, packaged, expressed and replicated. Read MoreSep. 20, 2025
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Isomerization insights: a deeper understanding of Pin1-PPARγ dynamics
Kojetin lab members Christopher Williams, staff scientist Paola Munoz-Tello and a collaborator from the Scripps Institute use NMR spectroscopy to investigate Pin1- PPARγ binding. Read MoreSep. 5, 2025
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From activation to repression: Decoding the impact of PPAR ligands on ligand-binding domain conformation
In a new study published in Nature Communications, the Doug Kojetin and Zhongyue Yang labs use peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma—more commonly known as PPAR—as a model system to understand the functional shifts of nuclear receptor LBDs. Read MoreMay. 12, 2025
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Unmasking antagonists: a deep dive into the structural binding poses of PPARγ ligands
Doug Kojetin, associate professor of biochemistry, and a collaborator from the Guangzhou Laboratory, use NMR and crystallography to elucidate the binding pose of GW9662 and T0070907 cobound with synthetic ligands for the first time. Read MoreDec. 13, 2024
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Kojetin, Waterson named Vanderbilt Innovation Ambassadors
Within the intellectual powerhouse that is Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center thrives a group of doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others who also are visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs. Several of these change-makers also donate their time and expertise through the Vanderbilt Innovation Ambassadors Program to help colleagues in their departments recognize and pursue the world-altering potential of their own ideas. Read MoreMay. 13, 2024