Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Faculty

Kermit Carraway, Ph.D.

Professor
Rm 1400 Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-3114
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Signal transduction by growth factors and the contributions of receptor signaling to development processes and tumor progression.

Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D.

Professor and Auburn Community Cancer Endowed Chair in Basic Science
Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Academic Diversity
451 Health Sciences Drive
Davis Campus
530-752-9654
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Genetic susceptibility to cancer, cancer genetics and genomics, human population genetics, cancer health disparities, global cancer health, Hispanic genetic demography.

Hongwu Chen, Ph.D.

Professor
Rm 1400B Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-7743
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Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Gene Expression, Cell Cycle.

Jeremy Chien, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
2700 Stockton Blvd.,
Rm 2354
Sacramento Campus
916-734-4766
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Molecular carcinogenesis and therapeutic targets in ovarian cancer using cancer genomics, functional genomics, tissue-specific targeting, PROTACs, and patient-derived models of cancer.

Megan Dennis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
GBSF 4515
Davis Campus
530-752-1357
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Human genetics and genomics, Zebrafish to test human neural genes, Sequencing complex genomic variation

Matthias Frank, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor
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Paramita M. Ghosh, Ph.D.

Professor
10535 Hospital Way
Building 807
Mather, CA 95655
916-843-9336
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Signal transduction pathways leading to the development of androgen-independent prostate cancer.

Paul J. Hagerman, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
4455 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-7266
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Molecular biology/genetics with particular focus on the neurodevelopmental disorder, fragile X syndrome, and the neurodegenerative disorder, fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS).

Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
GBSF 4339
Davis Campus
530-754-9725
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Algorithms for sequence (Genome) analysis, System biology and disease predictions

Yoshihiro Izumiya, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor
4645 Second Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95817
916-734-7253
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Izumiya's laboratory studies epigenetic gene regulation by using herpesvirus reactivation as a model system.

Thomas Jue, Ph.D.

Professor
4323 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-752-4569
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In vivo NMR imaging and spectroscopy investigation of metabolic regulation, bioenergetics, protein structure-function in the cell, lipoprotein interaction, and hypoxemia adaptation in marine organisms.

Kit S. Lam, M.D., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
Suite 2102 Oak Park Research Center Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-0910
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Lam is an expert in combinatorial chemistry, chemical biology, drug development, molecular imaging, nanotherapeutics and medical oncology.

Carlito Lebrilla, Ph.D.

Professor
2465 Chemistry Annex
Davis Campus
530-752-6364
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Mass Spectrometry applied to the analysis of biological compounds. Analysis of proteins and glyconjugates as markers for diseases including cancer and infection.

Yuanpei Li, Ph.D.

Professor
2700 Stockton Blvd
Oak Park Research Building
Suite 2405
Sacramento Campus
916-734-4420
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Nano-medicine, Theranostics, Biomaterials

Alan Lombard, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Department of Urologic Surgery
2700 Stockton Blvd.
Room 2354
Sacramento Campus
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Prostate cancer progression, therapeutic response, and resistance mechanisms

John Douglas McPherson, Ph.D.

Professor
Rm 2400B Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-7741
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David E. Olson, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Department of Chemistry
2463 Chemistry Annex
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Olson studies the regulation of neural plasticity, learning and memory by small molecules using techniques from the fields of chemical biology, synthetic chemistry, molecular neurobiology, and behavioral neuropharmacology.

David Segal, Ph.D.

Professor
4512 Genome Building
Davis Campus
530-754-9134
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Gene and epigene editing to treat neurologic disease.

Justin Siegel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Biochemistry, Chemistry and the Genome Center
Davis Campus
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Enzyme Design, Synthetic Biology, Molecular Modeling, Protein Design, Enzyme Discovery

Colleen Sweeney, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair of Education
Rm 1400 Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-838-3463
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Role of receptor tyrosine kinases in the genesis and progression of breast tumors; tumor suppressor proteins and their mechanisms of action, mechanisms of therapeutic resistance to targeted agents, microRNA-based and other novel therapeutics for triple-negative breast cancer.

Yoshikazu Takada, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
3300, 4645 Second Ave.,
Sacramento, CA 95817
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Flora Tassone, Ph.D.

Professor In-Residence
MIND Institute - Bioscience Building
Sacramento Campus
916-703-0463
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A molecular geneticist with a specialty in transcriptional and translational regulation of the fragile X (FMR1) gene.

Lin Tian, Ph.D.

WOS Adjunct Faculty
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Invents new molecular tools for analyzing and engineering functional neural circuits. Leveraging these tools, combined with optical imaging techniques, studies molecular mechanisms of neurological disorders at system levels to search for novel therapeutic treatments.

John Voss, Ph.D.

Professor
4110 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-7583
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Structure and dynamics of proteins using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Protein mis-folding and degenerative disease. Macromolecular assembly of protein filaments. Apolipoprotein structure and rHDL. Structure of biological membranes.

Aiming Yu, Ph.D.

Professor
2130 Oak Park Research Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-1566
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Drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; Anticancer pharmacology and experimental therapeutics; Noncoding RNAs; RNA technologies and therapy.