Primary Faculty

Manuel Ascano, Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Biochemistry Department
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
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232
: manuel.ascano@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-875-8714
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Breann Brown, Ph.D.

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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Richard M. Caprioli, Ph.D.

Stanford Moore Professor of Biochemistry
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology & Chemistry
Director, Mass Spectrometry Research Center

Molecular Imaging of Tissue by Mass Spectrometry

: 9160 MRB III
465 21st Avenue South
Nashville, - 37232-8576
: richard.m.caprioli@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-322-4336
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Bruce D. Carter, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Neurotrophin signaling, glia-mediated phagocytosis & Schwann cell biology

: 625 Light Hall
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232
: bruce.carter@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-936-3041

Walter J. Chazin, Ph.D.

Chancellor's Chair in Medicine
Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry
Director, Chemical & Physical Biology PhD Program
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

David K. Cortez, Ph.D.

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

Cortez Lab Website

: 613 Light Hall
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232-0146
: david.cortez@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-322-8547

James M. Dewar, Ph.D.

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

Martin Egli, Ph.D.

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

Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry & Pharmacology & Chemistry
Orrin H. Ingram II Chair in Cancer Research
Tadashi Inagami Chair in Biochemistry

Chemistry/enzymology of bioactivation & detoxication of foreign compounds

: 634-A Robinson Research Building
23rd & Pierce Avenue
Nashville, - 37232
: stephen.fesik@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-322-6303

F. Peter Guengerich, Ph.D.

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

Scott W. Hiebert, Ph.D.

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

Emily Hodges, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute

Epigenetics, gene regulation

: 673B Light Hall
Nashville, - 37205
: emily.hodges@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-875-9991

Lawrence J. Marnett, Ph.D.

Dean of Basic Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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

Houra Merrikh, Ph.D.

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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Adrian O. Olivares, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Nucleus mechanochemistry

: 639D Light Hall
2215 Garland Avenue
Nashville, - 37232
: adrian.olivares@vanderbilt.edu
: 615-322-4539
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Neil Osheroff, Ph.D.

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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Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President for Research, VUMC
Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Brock Family Directorship in Career Development
B.F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology
Professor of Biochemistry & Otolaryngology

Triple negative breast cancer & p53 family proteins