Faculty

  • Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Functional profiling of non-coding RNAs using proximity labeling, CRISPR screening, and directed evolution platforms
Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Assistant Professor of Biophysics
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Examining how biomolecular structure contributes to the processing pathways of two classes of molecules essential for human health: mitochondrial RNAs ((mt)RNAs) and vitamin B12.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Synthetic biology, living therapeutics, bacterial engineering and RNA medicine
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; Professor of Internal Medicine
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Tumor metabolism, cancer, pancreatic cancer, autoimmunity
Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives, U-M Rackham Graduate School; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Edwin Vedejs Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Discovery of artificial transcriptional regulators
Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biological Chemistry
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Enzyme mechanism and structure, protein design
Arthur F. Thurnau, Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor in Medicinal or Synthetic Chemistry; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Synthetic Chemistry and Glycoscience
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics; Faculty Scholar, Center for RNA Biomedicine
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Mechanisms of RNA regulation in stress, aging, and neurological disease
Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Assistant Professor of Cellular & Developmental Biology; Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
In-situ structural biology
Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Natural products with anticancer activity, synthesis, medicinal chemistry, cardiotonic steroids
Mary Sue Coleman Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology
Research:
Development of biocatalytic methods, complex molecule synthesis, natural products
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry; Faculty Scholar, Center for RNA Biomedicine
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
mRNA regulatory features that control protein output
  • Director of Molecular and Cellular Pathology Graduate Program, Medical School
Professor of Pathology
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Discovery, design and development of small molecules as new molecularly targeted therapies for cancer
  • Associate Chair of Biological Chemistry
Professor of Biological Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Protein/nucleic acid interactions and DNA repair
  • Rowena G. Matthews Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Using single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in combination with biophysical, biochemical, and genetic approaches to structurally and functionally characterize biologically important but structurally challenging molecular machines.

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