Faculty

  • Mary Sue Coleman Director and Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute
  • Vice Provost and Director, UM Biosciences Initiative
  • Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Expertise: Chemical Neurobiology
Research:
Melanocortin receptor drug discovery for treatment of eating disorders and dietary obesity.
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Mechanism and regulation of microtubule-associated motor proteins
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
The Garner Laboratory uses chemical biology, medicinal chemistry and molecular and cellular biology approaches to investigate the high-risk/high-reward areas of targeting microRNAs, RNA-protein and protein-protein interactions for probe and drug discovery.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Protein Organelles, Cellular Organization, Microbiome, Natural Products, Microbial Metabolism, cryo-EM
Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor and Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics and Pediatrics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Molecular genetics of blood clotting
Professor of Pathology
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Drug design, development of small molecules for targeted therapies in cancer, protein-protein interactions
Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
High End Mass Spectrometry Methods for Biomolecular Structure Elucidation
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Protein regulation by Ubiquitin-like post-translational modifications, mechanism of action and pathobiology of steroid hormone receptors, basic mechanisms of transcriptional regulation, drug discovery and development
William Roush Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Uncovering the mechanisms and functional roles of ncRNAs in disease progression using a combination of biomolecular NMR and other biophysical and structural tools.
Professor of Biological Chemistry
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Molecular interactions in living cells, nucleoprotein complex binding specificity and dynamics, protein modifications in living cells, chromatin and epigenetic regulation, transcription regulatory mechanisms
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Natural product drug discovery from plants
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.
  • Associate Director of Curriculum, Program in Chemical Biology
Seyhan N. Ege Associate Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Post-transcriptional modification of messenger RNAs (mRNAs)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Synthetic biology, living therapeutics, bacterial engineering and RNA medicine

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