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Faculty (TOP)


Marc Allard, PhD
mwallard@gwu.edu

Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Molecular systematics; evolution, and phylogenetics of the Mammalia

Patricia Berg, PhD
bcmpeb@gwumc.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Sickle Cell Anemia and Molecular Mechanisms of Leukemia

Simon Berkovich, PhD
berkov@seas.gwu.edu

Computer Science
Research Interests: Information systems, data structures, associative memories and processors, computer organization, mathematical modelling

Bernard Bouscarel, PhD
beb@gwu.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Serum lipoproteins, albumin, and related regulation

Sheri Church, PhD
schurch@gwu.edu

Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Molecular evolution and bioinformatics

Robert Donaldson, PhD
robdon@gwu.edu

Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Cell and molecular biology, plant biochemistry; proteins of glyoxysomal (peroxisomal) membranes; electron transport; peroxisomal targeting sequence receptor; iron reduction

Liliana Florea, PhD
florea@gwu.edu

Computer Science
Research Interests: DNA sequence analysis, comparative genomics, gene annotation, alternative splicing

Timothy Hales, PhD
phmtgh@gwumc.edu

Pharmacology
Research Interests: Molecular mechanism of action of general anesthetics and opioids

Peter Hotez, PhD
mtmpjh@gwumc.edu

Microbiology & Tropical Medicine
Research Interests: Microbiology; tropical medicine; global medical diplomacy; medical humanities; vaccines as agents of human conflict resolution and diplomacy; development of a vaccine for human hookworm infection

Valerie Hu, PhD
valhu@gwu.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular response to low energy and internal radiation

Fatah Kashanchi, PhD
bcmfxk@gwumc.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Genomics and proteomics of HIV and other related viruses

Ajit Kumar, PhD
akumar@gwu.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: RNA-protein interaction; transactivation of HIV gene expression

Yinglei Lai, PhD
ylai@gwu.edu

Statistics
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, statistical genetics

Timothy McCaffrey, PhD
mcc@gwu.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Genomics and proteomics of cardiovascular disease

Bhagirath Narahari, PhD
narahari@gwu.edu

Computer Science
Research Interests: Parallel processing, interconnection networks, distributed systems, design and analysis of algorithms

Weiqun Peng, PhD
wpeng@gwu.edu

Physics
Research Interests: Theoretical Biophysics; evolution and gene regulation

Anne Pumfery, PhD
bcmamp@gwumc.edu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Assistant Research Professor

Mark Reeves, PhD
reevesme@gwu.edu

Physics
Research Interests: Experimental condensed-matter physics, superconductivity

Rahul Simha, PhD
Computer Science
Research Interests: biological networks, databases, simulation

L. Courtney Smith, PhD
csmith@gwu.edu

Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Molecular evolution of immune systems; cell and molecular biology of immune responses in echinoderms

Dudley Strickland, PhD
strickla@usa.redcross.org

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Protease receptors and CNS disease

Frank Turano, PhD
fturano@gwu.edu

Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Plant molecular biology and biochemistry; ligand-gated ion channels; nitrogen metabolism; calcium or calmodulin-activated enzymes; iron reduction

Akos Vertes, PhD
vertes@gwu.edu

Chemistry
Research Interests: Analysis of Synthetic and Biopolimers, Lasers and Electrospray in Spectroscopy

Thomas Wilke, PhD
mtmtxw@gwumc.edu

Microbiology & Tropical Medicine
Research Interests: Evolutionary biology; Vector biology

Kaili Wu, PhD
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Assistant Research Professor


Affiliate Faculty (TOP)


William Nierman, PhD
TIGR-GW Faculty
Research Interests: Genomics

Scott Peterson, PhD
TIGR-GW Faculty
Research Interests: Gene expression analysis of anthrax infection, microarrays of pneumococcus

John Quackenbush, PhD
TIGR-GW Faculty
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, gene expression, mammalian microarray analysis


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Last Update: November 14th, 2002