Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery

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Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery unifies the disciplines of chemistry, biology, engineering and computational science. Research in this area focuses on the development of fundamental molecular health sciences required to understand life processes, from the level of the single molecule to the human being. The research and training efforts of faculty in this concentration are coordinated through the CLP Institute. Research opportunities in this concentration integrate many disciplines and involve collaborative efforts between preceptors from various fields.

Chemistry of Life Processes Institute

Faculty List

	Vadim Backman, PhD Email: v-backman@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Development of novel optical spectral and imaging techniques for non-invasive screening, diagnosis and detection of disease, and characterization of biological and bioengineered tissue
	Linda J. Broadbelt, PhD Email: broadbelt@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Multiscale modeling, complex kinetics modeling, environmental catalysis, novel biochemical pathways, and polymerization and depolymerization kinetics
	Brian Hoffman, PhD Email: bmh@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Long-range inter-protein electron transfer
	Michael C. Jewett, PhD Email: m-jewett@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Engineering cell-free systems for medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology
	Neil Kelleher, PhD Email: n-kelleher@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Enzymology of natural product biosynthesis, mass spectrometric-based studies of the "Histone Code," and development of Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry for Top Down Proteomics
	Kelly E. Mayo, PhD Email: k-mayo@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system
	Thomas J. Meade, PhD Email: tmeade@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
	Chad Mirkin Email: chadnano@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Thomas V. O'Halloran, PhD Email: t-ohalloran@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Metalloregulatory proteins
	Amy C. Rosenzweig, PhD Email: amyr@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Structural biology and bioinorganic chemistry, metal uptake, transport and storage, oxygen activation by metalloenzymes, biological methane oxidation, membrane protein crystallography
	Karl A. Scheidt, PhD Email: scheidt@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Drug discovery, bioorganic chemistry, and small molecule-driven chemical biology
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Erik J. Sontheimer, PhD Email: erik@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Ribonucleoproteins and eukaryotic gene expression
	Alexander V. Statsyuk, PhD Email: a-statsyuk@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Chemical biology, protein degradation pathways, cancer
	Vinzenz Unger, PhD Email: v-unger@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Transport of transition metals; structure and function of membrane associated synaptic scaffolds; methods development for membrane protein crystallization and single particle approaches
	Yun Wang, PhD Email: yun-wang@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Medical and environmental microbiology, aquatic geochemistry
	Eric Weiss, PhD Email: elweiss@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Spatially and temporally coordinated cell growth and cell division
	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Email: tkw@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation of ovarian follicle growth