Primary Investigator Track Faculty
Primary Faculty
Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
Director of Graduate Studies for Biochemistry
Dean Faculty Fellow
DNA/RNA detection & regulation in innate immunity & viral pathogenesis
: 673C Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : manuel.ascano@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-875-8714
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- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/ascano-lab/
Assistant Professor , Biochemistry
DNA replication stress and genome instability
: 610 Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville , Tennessee - 37232-0146- : rahul.bhowmick@Vanderbilt.Edu
- : 615-810-3004
- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/bhowmick-lab/
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Structural biology & protein assembly
: 639C Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee - 37323- : breann.brown@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-1632
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Professor , Biochemistry
Natalie Overall Warren Chair in Biochemistry
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Neurotrophin signaling, glia-mediated phagocytosis & Schwann cell biology
: 625 Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : bruce.carter@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-936-3041
Chancellor's Chair in Medicine
Senior Associate Dean, Biomedical Research Education & Training (BRET)
Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry
Director, Molecular Biophysics Training Program
Structural cell biology
: 5140 BioSci MRB III
465 21st Avenue South
Nashville, - 37232- : walter.j.chazin@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-936-2210
Chair of Biochemistry Department
Richard N. Armstrong Ph.D. Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry
Professor of Biochemistry
Associate Director for Basic Science Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Genome maintenance by the DNA damage response
: 613 Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, - 37232-0146- : david.cortez@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-322-8547
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Termination of DNA synthesis, DNA replication & repair
: 625d Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : james.dewar@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-875-8125
Professor of Biochemistry
Structural biology of circadian clocks, nucleic acids & DNA polymerases
: 868A Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232-0146- : martin.egli@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-8070
Professor of Biochemistry & Pharmacology & Chemistry
Orrin H. Ingram II Chair in Cancer Research
Tadashi Inagami Chair in Biochemistry
Fragment and structure based drug discovery
: 634-A Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : stephen.fesik@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-322-6303
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Molecular mechanics of cellular compartmentalization
: 637d Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashvillle, Tennessee - 37232- : andrew.folkmann@vanderbilt.edu
- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/folkmann-lab/
Professor of Biochemistry
Tadashi Inagami Chair in Biochemistry
Chemistry/enzymology of bioactivation & detoxication of foreign compounds
: 638 Robinson Research Building
2200 Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : f.guengerich@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-322-2261
Professor of Biochemistry
Associate Professor of Medicine
Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research
Oncogenic transcription factors, chemical-genetics, nascent transcription, genomics, proteomics
: 512 B Preston Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : scott.hiebert@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-936-3582
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
Epigenetics, gene regulation
: 673B Light Hall
Nashville, - 37205- : emily.hodges@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-875-9991
Ingram Professor of Cancer Research
Professor , Biochemistry
Professor , Cancer Research
Co-Leader, Cancer Cell Biology Program, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
Ribosome homeostasis via ribosome assembly and repair
: 610 Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville , Tennessee - 37232-0146- : katrin.karbstein@Vanderbilt.Edu>
- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/karbstein-lab/
Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Center for Structural Biology
Associate Professor, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
: 842/846 Robinson Research Building
2200 Pierce Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232- : douglas.kojetin@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-2841
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- : https://www.kojetinlab.org/
Dean, School of Medicine Basic Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
Mary Geddes Stahlman Chair
: V4124 MRBIII
465 21st Avenue South
Nashville , Tennessee - 37240- : john.kuriyan@vanderbilt.edu
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Dean Emeritus, Basic Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
University Distinguished Professor
Mary Geddes Stahlman Professor of Cancer Research
University Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry
Professor of Pharmacology
Oxidative lipid metabolism in inflammation & cancer
: 850 A Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232-0146- : larry.marnett@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-322-0907
Professor, Biochemistry, PMI, VI4
DNA Replication, mutagenesis, & evolution
: 639E Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee - 37232- : houra.merrikh@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-3846
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Assistant Professor , Biochemistry
Cellular surveillance by ribosomes & neuronal translation & translation-related diseases
: 670 Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nasvhille , Tennessee - 37232-0146- : sezen.meydan@vanderbilt.edu
- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/meydan-lab/
Professor of Biochemistry
Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology)
John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry
Past-Director, Academy for Excellence in Education
Co-Leader, Foundations of Medical Knowledge Phase
Topoisomerase function and the mechanism of anticancer & antibacterial agents
: 654 Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232- : neil.osheroff@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-322-4338
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Professor of Biochemistry
Ingram Professor of Cancer Research
Brock Family Directorship in Career Development
Executive Vice President for Research
Chief Scientific and Strategy Officer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Triple negative breast cancer & p53 family proteins
: 652 Preston Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232-0146- : j.pietenpol@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-936-1512
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Structural biology of mRNA nuclear export & viral exploitation
https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/ren-lab
: 673d Light Hall
Nashville, - 37232-0146- : yi.ren@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-2914
- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/ren-lab
Professor of Biochemistry & Medicine
Vice Dean of Basic Sciences
Associate Dean for Research
Aileen M. Lange & Annie Mary Lyle Chair, Cardiovascular Research
Structural & chemical biology of disease-related membrane proteins
: 5110 C MRB III
465 21st Avenue South
Nashville, - 37232-8725- : chuck.sanders@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-936-3756
Professor, Biochemistry, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Stevenson Chair in Biochemistry
Director of Core Facilities, Mass Spectrometry Research Center
Proteomics analysis in development and disease; mass spectrometry technology development
: 9126D MRB III
465 21st Avenue South
Nashville, - 37232- : k.schey@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-936-6861
- : https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/msrc-schey-lab/
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Member, Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology
Structural biology in near-native states, viral structure & assembly
: 5154C MRB III
465 21st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee - 37240-7917- : More Information/Publications
- : https://www.wan-lab.org