Faculty | UC Davis Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

Kermit Carraway, Ph.D.

Professor
Rm 1400 Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-3114
klcarraway@health.ucdavis.edu

Signal transduction by growth factors and the contributions of receptor signaling to development processes and tumor progression.

Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D.

Professor, Auburn Community Cancer Endowed Chair in Basic Science, and Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Academic Diversity
451 Health Sciences Drive
Davis Campus
530-752-9654
lgcarvajal@health.ucdavis.edu

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 and Vice Chair of Research
Rm 1400B Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-7743
hwzchen@health.ucdavis.edu

Cancer epigenetics, genomics, therapeutics development and drug resistance, metabolomics and novel therapeutic targets using cutting-edge approaches and disease relevant models.

Jeremy Chien, Ph.D.

Professor
4635 2nd Ave, Research 1 Building, Room 2006
Sacramento Campus
916-734-4766
jrchien@health.ucdavis.edu

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.

Professor and Associate Director of Genomics
GBSF 4515
Davis Campus
530-752-1357
mydennis@health.ucdavis.edu

Human genetics and genomics, Zebrafish to test human neural genes, Sequencing complex genomic variation

Paramita M. Ghosh, Ph.D.

Professor
Room 1132
Oak Park Research Building
2700 Stockton Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95817
916-734-7805
paghosh@health.ucdavis.edu

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
pjhagerman@health.ucdavis.edu

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
fhormozd@health.ucdavis.edu

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
yizumiya@health.ucdavis.edu

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
tjue@health.ucdavis.edu

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
kslam@health.ucdavis.edu

Lam is an expert in combinatorial chemistry, chemical biology, drug development, molecular imaging, nanotherapeutics and medical oncology.

Yuanpei Li, Ph.D.

Professor
2700 Stockton Blvd
Oak Park Research Building
Suite 2405
Sacramento Campus
916-734-4420
lypli@health.ucdavis.edu

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
aplombard@health.ucdavis.edu

Prostate cancer progression, therapeutic response, and resistance mechanisms

John Douglas McPherson, Ph.D.

Professor
Rm 2400B Research III Building
Sacramento Campus
916-734-7741
jdmcpherson@health.ucdavis.edu

David E. Olson, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
Department of Chemistry
2463 Chemistry Annex
deolson@health.ucdavis.edu

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.

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David Segal, Ph.D.

Professor and Harold Albin Johnson Chair in Biomedical Research
4512 Genome Building
Davis Campus
530-754-9134
djsegal@health.ucdavis.edu

Gene and epigene editing to treat neurologic disease.

Justin Siegel, Ph.D.

Professor
Biochemistry, Chemistry and the Genome Center
Davis Campus
jbsiegel@health.ucdavis.edu

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
casweeney@health.ucdavis.edu

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
ytakada@health.ucdavis.edu

Flora Tassone, Ph.D.

Professor In-Residence
MIND Institute - Bioscience Building
Sacramento Campus
916-703-0463
ftassone@health.ucdavis.edu

A molecular geneticist with a specialty in transcriptional and translational regulation of the fragile X (FMR1) gene.

John Voss, Ph.D.

Professor
4110 Tupper Hall
Davis Campus
530-754-7583
jcvoss@health.ucdavis.edu

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
aimyu@health.ucdavis.edu

Drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; Anticancer pharmacology and experimental therapeutics; Noncoding RNAs; RNA technologies and therapy.

John Hershey, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
jwhershey@ucdavis.edu

Molecular biology and protein synthesis. Structure/function of translation initiation factors and mechanisms of translational control.

Hsing-Jien Kung, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
hkung@ucdavis.edu

Genetic and epigenetic targets of cancer.

Su Hao Lo, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
shlo@ucdavis.edu

Biomolecular condensates, Cell biology, , Renal diseases, Cancer biology, and mouse models

Michael Saxton, Ph.D.

Research Chemist Emeritus

Frederic A. Troy II, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair Emeritus

Glycobiology - The Polysialic Acid Glycotope: Structure, Function, Synthesis and Glycopathology. Role of the Polysialic Glycotopein Human Cancer Metastasis.