University of Virginia Health System

	Paula  Q.  Barrett,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Pharmacology Research Interests: Regulation of low-voltage activated T-type Ca2+ channel activity by kinases and heterotrimeric G-proteins and their roles in physiological responses.
	Stefan  Bekiranov,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Research Interests: Physical Modeling of Microarray Hybridization; Analysis of Genomic Tiling Array Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Regulatory Networks
	Robert  G.  Bryant,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Chemistry Research Interests: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Biophysics
	John  H.  Bushweller,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Structural and Functional Basis for Oncogenesis; Targeted Drug Development; Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins
	David  S.  Cafiso,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Chemistry Research Interests: Molecular Mechanisms for Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
	J.  David  Castle,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Cell Biology Research Interests: Regulation of Membrane Recycling and Protein Secretion
	Wei-Min  Chen,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences Research Interests: My research focuses on the design and statistical analysis of human gene mapping data. Recently, my research has focused on the development of methods for analyzing genome-wide SNP data in datasets that include thousands of individuals.
	Linda  Columbus,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Chemistry Research Interests: Biophysical Chemistry: Membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics
	Sue  E.  Delos,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Cell Biology Research Interests: Virus-Receptor Interactions; Virus-Cell Fusion Mechanisms
	Zygmunt  S.  Derewenda,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Mechanisms of Intracellular Signal Transduction; X-ray Crystallography
	Edward  H.  Egelman,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Research Interests: Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy
	Salem  Faham,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Structural biology of membrane proteins; Structure/function and structure/stability relationships and the development of new tools for protein crystallization.
	Erik  J.  Fernandez,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Chemical Engineering Research Interests: Purification of biological molecules, engineered biointerfaces, molecular aspects of Alzheimer's disease.
	Roseanne  M.  Ford,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Chemical Engineering Research Interests: Bacterial attachment and biofilms, microbial transport in porous media
	William  H.  Guilford,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Molecular Mechanics of Muscle Contraction in Cardiovascular Disease
	Ira  M.  Hall,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Research Interests: Structural Genome Variation & Evolution; Genomic Instability; Epigenetic Inheritance
	Jeffrey  R.  Holt,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Neuroscience Research Interests: Sensory signaling in hair cells of the auditory and vestibular systems.
	Michael  L.  Johnson,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Pharmacology Research Interests: Mathematical modeling of biological processes
	Masashi  Kawasaki,  Ph.D    [more information] Professor of Biology Research Interests: Neuroethology of electric fish
	Dean  H.  Kedes,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health Research Interests: Human Herpes virus Associated with Kaposi's Sarcoma
	Sepideh  Khorasanizadeh,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Research Interests: Biophysical Characterization of Epigenetic Signaling
	Yong  I.  Kim,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Ion Channel Dysfunction in Neurological Disorders
	Robert  H.  Kretsinger,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Biology Research Interests: Structure and Mechanism of Enzymes; Evolution of Ca-Modulated Proteins
	Inchan  Kwon,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Research Interests: Amyloid inhibitors for Alzheimer’s disease, protein engineering, viral gene therapy, stem cell engineering, bio-inspired nanomaterials
	Michael  B.  Lawrence,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Vascular and Molecular Engineering
	Jae  K.  Lee,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences Research Interests: Genomic expression-based personalized chemotherapeutic response prediction; Integrative pathway modeling on atherosclerosis and cancer immunogenicity; Discovery of chemosensitivity biomarkers and novel chemotherapeutic compounds.
	Wladek  Minor,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Structure-Function Relationships in Proteins; Structural Genomics; Bioinformatics
	Suzanne  M.  Moenter,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Interests: Understanding How the Central Nervous System Controls Fertility through Study of Gonodotropin-releasing Hormone Neurons
	Cameron  Mura,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Chemistry Research Interests: Structure, function, & evolution of RNA-processing assemblies; structural and computational biology; molecular biophysics
	Robert  K.  Nakamoto,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Structure-Function of Active Transporters
	William  R.  Pearson,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Research Interests: Glutathione S-Transferases; Protein Evolution; Computational Biology
	Edward  Perez-Reyes,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Pharmacology Research Interests: Molecular Pharmacology of Voltage-gated Calcium Channels
	Fraydoon  Rastinejad,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Pharmacology Research Interests: Analysis of Nuclear Receptor Complexes with DNA and Ligands
	Michael  R.  Shirts,  Ph.D.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Research Interests: The development of computational tools that can fundamentally change molecular design; drug design through prediction of physical properties and binding affinities and the design of novel biomimetic materials.
	Thomas  C.  Skalak,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Vascular and Molecular Engineering
	Avril  V.  Somlyo,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Signaling pathways that regulate contractility in smooth muscle tissues and migrating cells in normal and disease states such an coronary artery disease, asthma and hypertension. Structure function studies of the intercalated disk in the heart.
	Lukas  K.  Tamm,  Ph.D.    [more information] Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Biomembrane Structure and Function; Membrane Fusion in Viral Cell Entry and Exocytosis; Lipid-Protein Interactions
	Michael  C.  Wiener,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Structural biology (esp. crystallography) of integral membrane proteins; TonB-dependent active transport across the bacterial outer membrane; cancer-related membrane proteins; crystallization methods development
	Mark  B.  Williams,  Ph.D.    [more information] Associate Professor of Radiology Research Interests: Design, Development and Optimization of Medical Imaging Technologies
	Mark  Yeager,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information] Andrew P. Somlyo Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Cardiac Gap Junction Membrane Channels / Integrins Water Channels / Rotavirus / Reovirus / Retrovirus
	Jochen  Zimmer,  D. Phil.    [more information] Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Research Interests: Mechanism of polysaccharide translocation across biological membranes