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Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology

Members

Tenured & Tenure-Track Faculty
Research Faculty & Core Directors
Project Consultants
Educational Faculty


Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

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Christopher Aiken, Ph.D.

Professor - Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Protein Structure & Function; High-Throughput Technology

Member: VI4

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Manuel Ascano Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Director of Graduate Studies, Biochemistry
Dean Faculty Fellow, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry

Member: VI4; VICC; Center for Matrix Biology

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Brian O. Bachmann, Ph.D.

Stevenson Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Biochemistry
VICB Associate Director, Molecular Discovery
Director, Vanderbilt Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program (V-CBI)

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Natural Products; Protein Structure & Function; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Study and Function of Enzymes; glycobiology

Member: VI4; VICC; VMI; QSBC

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Ray Blind, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology: Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; High-Throughput Technology; Nanotechnology; Imaging

Member: Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC); CSB; VICC

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Alan Brash, Ph.D.

Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Lipid Biology; Natural Products; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VICC

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Richard M. Breyer, Ph.D.

Ruth King Scoville Chair in Medicine, School of Medicine Basic Sciences
Professor, Medicine
Professor, Biochemistry & Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Lipid Biology

Member: VICC; Center for Matrix Biology

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Breann Brown, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Spectroscopy; X-ray Crystallography

Member: CSB

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Jonathan D. Brown, M.D.

Associate Professor, School of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Areas of Interest: Natural Products; High-Throughput Technology

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Lauren Buchanan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Nanotechnology; Imaging; X-ray Crystallography

Member: VINSE

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Richard Caprioli, Ph.D.

Stanford Moore Chair & Professor, Biochemistry
Professor, Pharmacology, Chemistry, & Medicine

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Nanotechnology; Imaging

Member: Mass Spectrometry Research Center; VICC; Center for Matrix Biology

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James (Jim) E. Cassat, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation (VI4)

Areas of Interest: High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

Member: VI4

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Walter Chazin, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry & Chemistry
Chancellor's Chair, Medicine
Senior Associate Dean, Biomedical Research Education & Training (BRET)
Director, Chemical & Physical Biology PhD Program
Director, Molecular Biophysics Training Program

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Spectroscopy; X-ray Crystallography

Member: CSB; VI4; VICC

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Wenbiao Chen, Ph.D.

Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Areas of Interest: Cell Signaling; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

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David Cliffel, Ph.D.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair & Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Pediatrics
Director of Graduate Studies, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Nanotechnology 

Member: VINSE; VMI; VIIBRE

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Robert J. Coffey, M.D.

John B. Wallace Professor, Medicine (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition)
Ingram Professor, Cancer Research
Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Director, Epithelial Biology Center

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

Member: Epithelial Biology Center; VICC

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P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.

Professor, Emeritus, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products

Member: VCNDD

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David Cortez, Ph.D.

Chair, Biochemistry
Richard N. Armstrong Ph.D. Chair for Innovation & Professor, Biochemistry
Ingram Professor, Cancer Research
Associate Director for Basic Science Research, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Spectroscopy; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

Member: VICC

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James Crowe, M.D.

Ann Scott Carell Chair & Professor, Pediatrics & Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Protein Structure & Function; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; X-ray Crystallography

Member: VICC; VI4; VINSE; VMI; Vanderbilt Vaccine Center

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Sean Davies, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Pharmacology
Director of Enrichment and Outreach, Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Training Center

Areas of Interest: Cell Signaling; Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC), VI4; Center for Matrix Biology

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Mark Denison, M.D.

Professor and Edward Claiborne Stahlman, Pediatrics
Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Director, Lamb Center for Pediatric Research

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; Imaging

Member: VI4; VICC

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Jerod S. Denton, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Medicine, Anesthesiology
Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Neuroscience; Protein Structure & Function; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; X-ray Crystallography 

Member: Center for Matrix Biology; Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH)

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Prashant Donthamsetti, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Neurodegenerative & Neuropsychiatric Diseases, Cell Signaling, Protein Structure & Function

Member: VI4

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Brandt Eichman, Ph.D.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair, Professor, & Chair, Biological Sciences
Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; X-ray Crystallography, Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

Member: CSB; VICC; VMI; Center for Matrix Biology

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Stephen Fesik, Ph.D.

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

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; High-Throughput Technology; Spectroscopy; X-ray Crystallography

Member: VICC; CSB

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Jennifer Gaddy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Medicine
Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; Imaging

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James Goldenring, M.D., Ph.D.

Vice Chair, Surgical Research
Paul W. Sanger Professor, Experimental Surgery
Professor, Surgery & Cell and Developmental Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Antibody & Protein Expression

Member: Epithelial Biology Center; VI4; VICC

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F. Peter Guengerich, Ph.D.

Tadashi Inagami Chair & Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VICC

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Vsevolod V Gurevich, Ph.D.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair & Professor, Pharmacology
Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; X-ray Crystallography

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Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor, Urology
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (VI4)

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Cell Signaling; Imaging

Member: VI4; VMI

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Heidi E. Hamm, Ph.D.

Professor, Pharmacology
Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair, Cardiovascular Research
Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Professor, Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; Natural Products

Member: VICC

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Jennifer Herington, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
Assistant Director, Pre3 Initiative

Areas of Interest: Natural Products; High-Throughput Technology; Imaging

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Scott W Hiebert, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Medicine
Hortense B. Ingram Chair, Cancer Research

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology: Protein Structure & Function

Member: VICC

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Billy G Hudson, Ph.D.

Elliott V. Newman Professor , Medicine
Professor, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, & Cell Biology
Director, Center for Matrix Biology

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; X-ray Crystallography

Member: Center for Matrix Biology; VICC

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Rebecca Ihrie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology & Neurological Surgery

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Imaging; Computational Biology

Member: VICC; QSBC; VIIBRE

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Jonathan Irish, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Natural Products; High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

Member: Cancer & Immunology Core (CIC); Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence (MCCE), VI4; VICC; QSBC

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Tina Iverson, Ph.D.

Professor, Pharmacology
Professor, Biochemistry
Founding Scientific Director, Vanderbilt High-throughput Biomolecular Crystallization Facility

Areas of Interest: Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; X-ray Crystallography

Member: VI4; CSB

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Carl Johnson, Ph.D.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair & Professor, Biological Sciences
Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Imaging

Member: VICC; VMI

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Jeffrey Johnston, Ph.D.

Stevenson Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry

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Carrie Jones, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Director of In Vivo and Translational Pharmacology & Development Director, Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (WCNDD)

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Nanotechnology; Imaging; Antibody & Protein Expression

Member: VCNDD

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Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D.

Dorothy B. and Theodore R. Austin Chair, Pathology
Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Nanotechnology; Imaging

Member: VICC; VMI

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John Karijolich, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology 

Member: VICC

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Daria E. Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Natural Products, Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry, High-Throughput Screening

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Douglas Kojetin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology & Medicine, Neurodegenerative & Neuropsychiatric Diseases, Cell Signaling,  Protein Structure & Function; High-Throughput Technology, Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Mass Spectrometry, NMR, X-ray Crystallography and/or cryo-EM, Bioinformatics, Chemical Synthesis, Small Molecule NMR

Member: Center for Structural Biology

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John Kuriyan, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry
Dean, School of Medicine Basic Sciences

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Drug Discovery; X-ray Crystallography and/or cryo-EM

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Borden Lacy, Ph.D.

Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology & Biochemistry
Director, Center for Structural Biology (CSB)

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Protein Structure & Function; Imaging; X-ray Crystallography

Member: VI4; CSB; Epithelial Biology Center

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Deborah A Lannigan, Ph.D.

Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor, Cancer Biology
Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry

Member: VI4; VICC

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Ken Lau, Ph.D.

Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Nanotechnology; Imaging

Member: VI4; VICC; Epithelial Biology Center

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Craig Lindsley, Ph.D.

William K. Warren, Jr. Chair, Medicine
Executive Director, Warren for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (WCNDD)
Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Warren for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (WCNDD)
University Professor, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Chemistry
Director, The Vanderbilt Specialized Chemistry Center For Accelerated Probe Development
Founding Editor, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Editor, ACS Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Imaging

Member: VCNDD; VICC; Center for Matrix Biology

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Ian G Macara, Ph.D.

Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology
Professor - Louise B. McGavock Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Cell Signaling

Member: VICC; Epithelial Biology Center

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Jason MacGurn, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

Member: VICC; Epithelial Biology Center

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Larry Marnett, Ph.D.

Dean Emeritus, School of Medicine, Basic Sciences
University Distinguished Professor
Mary Geddes Stahlman Professor, Cancer Research
University Professor, Biochemistry & Chemistry
Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging 

Member: VICC

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Hassane Mchaourab, Ph.D.

Louise B. McGavock Chair, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Professor, Physics, Chemistry, & Center for Structural Biology (CSB)

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; High-Throughput Technology

Member: CSB; VICC

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John McLean, Ph.D.

Stevenson Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry
Director, Center for Innovative Technology (CIT)
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Science

Areas of Interest: Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4; VICC; VMI; CIT; VIIBRE

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Jens Meiler, Ph.D.

Distinguished Research Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; Computational Biology

Member: CSB; VICC; Center for Matrix Biology

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Houra Merrikh, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging; Spectroscopy; X-ray Crystallography; Computational Biology 

Member: VI4; VICC; VMI

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Gregor Neuert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling

Member: VI4; VICC; QSBC

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Colleen Niswender, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Director of Molecular Pharmacology, Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (WCNDD)

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology

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Kevin Niswender, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Medicine
Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Areas of Interest: Lipid Biology; Neuroscience 

Member: VICTR

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Richard O'Brien, Ph.D.

Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Director of Graduate Studies, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Areas of Interest: Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; High-Throughput Technology

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Neil Osheroff, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry
Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology)
John G. Coniglio Chair, Biochemistry
Co-Leader, Foundations of Medical Knowledge Phase

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Natural Products

Member: VICC

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Wellington Pham, Ph.D.

Professor, Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Imaging

Member: VICC; VUIIS; VINSE

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Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific and Strategy Officer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Executive Vice President for Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Professor, Biochemistry
Ingram Professor, Cancer Research
Brock Family Directorship, Career Development

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling

Member: VICC; Center for Matrix Biology

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Lars Plate, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Cornelius Vanderbilt Dean's Faculty Fellow

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4

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Vito Quaranta, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry
Professor, Pharmacology
Director, Quantitative Systems Biology Center (QSBC)
Co-Director, Center for Matrix Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology

Member: VICC; QSBC; Center for Matrix Biology

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Carmelo Rizzo, Ph.D.

Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry;

Member: VICC

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Renã A.S. Robinson, Ph.D.

Professor - Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chair, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Protein Structure & Function; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI); Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center (VMAC)

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Antonis Rokas, Ph.D.

Professor - Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Biological Sciences
Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Director, Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative

Areas of Interest: Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4

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Sandra J Rosenthal, Ph.D.

Chair, Chemistry
Jack and Pamela Egan Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Physics, Pharmacology, & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Areas of Interest: Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Nanotechnology; Imaging

Member: VINSE

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Charles Sanders, Ph.D.

Vice Dean, School of Medicine, Basic Sciences
Professor, Biochemistry
Aileen M Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair, Cardiovascular Research

Areas of Interest: Neuroscience; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Spectroscopy

Member: CSB; Center for Matrix Biology

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Kevin Schey, Ph.D.

Professor - Stevenson Chair, Biochemistry
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Director of Core Facilities, Mass Spectrometry Research Center

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Imaging

Member: Mass Spectrometry Research Center

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Nathan Schley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; X-ray Crystallography

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Jonathan Schmitz, M.D., Ph.D, D(ABMM)

Assistant Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor, Urology
Director of Translational Microbial Diagnostics, VUMC Diagnostic Laboratories

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; High-Throughput Technology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4

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Claus Schneider, Ph.D.

Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4; VICC

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Alex Schuppe, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology, Natural Products, Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry, High Throughput Screening

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Eric Skaar, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor - Ernest W. Goodpasture Chair, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Director, Medical Center Representative, VICB
Director, Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (VI4)
Director, Division of Molecular Pathogenesis
Vice Chair for Basic Research, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease T32 Training Program (CBID)

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Imaging; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4; VICC; VMI

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Benjamin Spiller, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; X-ray Crystallography

Member: VI4; CSB

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Michael P. Stone, Ph.D.

Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Spectroscopy

Member: CSB; VICC

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Gary Sulikowski, Ph.D.

Stevenson Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Pharmacology
Director, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB)
Faculty Director, Chemical Synthesis Core (VICB)

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Lipid biology

Member: VI4; VICC; VMI

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William Tansey, Ph.D.

Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Ingram Professor, Cancer Research
Professor, Biochemistry
Co-Leader, Genome Maintenance Research Program/VICC

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Natural Products; Protein Structure & Function

Member: VICC; Epithelial Biology Center

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Steven Townsend, Ph.D.

Stevenson Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Protein Structure & Function; Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; glycobiology

Member: VI4; VMI

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Brian Wadzinski, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Protein Structure & Function; Antibody & Protein Expression

Member: VICC

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Allison Walker, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology, Natural Products, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning

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Alex Waterson, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Pharmacology & Chemistry
Associate Director, Drug Discovery (VICB)
Co-Principal Investigator, Vanderbilt Chemical Diversity Center (VCDC)

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; High-Throughput Technology

Member: VICC

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John Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Infectious Diseases and Immunity;  Nanotechnology; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry

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David Wright, Ph.D.

Stevenson Professor, Chemistry
Dean of Graduate Education & Research, College of Arts & Science

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Nanotechnology

Member: VI4; VINSE

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Zhongyue (John) Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Protein Structure & Function; High-Throughput Technology; X-ray Crystallography 

Member: Data Science Institute

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Marija Zanic, Ph.D.

Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Nanotechnology

Member: VICC; VIIBRE

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Qiangjun Zhou, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Training faculty, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

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Wenhan Zhu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Areas of Interest: Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis

Member: VI4

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Laurence Zwiebel, Ph.D.

Professor - Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Biological Sciences
Professor, Pharmacology

Areas of Interest: Infectious Diseases and Immunity; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology

Member: VI4



Research Faculty and Core Directors

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Joshua Bauer, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Director, High-Throughput Screening Facility (HTS/VICB)

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; High-Throughput Technology; Imaging

Member: VICC

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Plamen Christov, Ph.D.

Assistant Director, Chemical Synthesis Core (VICB)
Drug Discovery Scientist II, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology, Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products

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Kwangho Kim, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Director, Chemical Synthesis Core (VICB)

Areas of Interest: Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products

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Galina Lepesheva, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Department of Biochemistry

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Spectroscopy; X-ray Crystallography

Member: CSB; VICC

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Ginger Milne, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Eicosanoid core Laboratory (VUMC)

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Neuroscience; Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis;

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Ned A. Porter, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Department of Chemistry
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Lipid Biology; Mass Spectrometry & Omics Analysis; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry

Member: VICC

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Donald Stec, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor , Department of Chemistry
Director, Small Molecule NMR Facility

Areas of Interest: Spectroscopy; Cancer Biology; Lipid Biology; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry

Member: Center for Matrix Biology

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Markus Voehler, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor , Department of Chemistry
Director of Operations, Small Molecule NMR Facility

Areas of Interest: Cancer Biology; Protein Structure & Function; Spectroscopy; X-ray Crystallography



Project Consultants

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Margaret Read, Ph.D.

General Manager - Corporate Alliances, Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization (CTTC)
Associate Director, Translational Science (VICB)

Member: CTTC

 

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Michael Villalobos, Ph.D.

Manager, Biotech Licensing, Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization (CTTC)

Member: CTTC



Educational Faculty

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Alissa Hare, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Areas of Interest: Natural Products; Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products

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