Research

Current faculty research areas include:

• Target discovery and validation for new anti-cancer drugs
• Development of fluorogenic assays for high throughput screening
• Computational modeling of DNA-protein interactions
• Epigenetic control of carcinogenesis
• Synthesis of novel anticancer and anti-HIV drugs
• Discovery of marine natural products with anti-cancer activity
• Study of seleno-amino acids and their role in cancer chemoprevention
• Synthesis and testing of novel anti-infective and anti-parasitic drugs
• Application of mass spectrometry and NMR to the elucidation of protein, nucleic acid, and small molecule structures
• Elucidating bacterial and fungal biosynthetic pathways to harness their medical potential
• Synthesis and evaluation of novel biopolymers for site-targeted drug delivery
• Fabrication of biocompatible materials for tissue engineering and wound repa