Chemistry Faculty

TrackChair:  Joseph Ready 

Richard Auchus -- Biochemical, structural, and genetic studies of the enzymes and pathways of steroid hormone biosynthesis in human beings.

Chuo Chen -- Naturalproduct synthesis, synthetic methodology development, small molecule library synthesis and chemical biology.

David Corey -- Engineering proteins and nucleic acids for novel function.

Jef De Brabander -- Synthesis of natural products and other molecular architectures and interrogation of their mode-of-action using molecular pharmacology and biochemistry.

Douglas Frantz -- Development and discovery of practical and efficient synthetic methodologies for useful application in both medicinal and process chemistry activities in support of drug discovery and pre-clinical development of drug candidates.

Wen-Hong Li -- Intercellular communications through gap junctions; molecular engineering of fluorescent sensors for cellular imaging; wide field, confocal and multi-photon fluorescence microscopy; mechanisms and functions of cellular calcium signaling.

Thomas Kodadek -- Biochemistry of transcriptional regulation, chemical biology, proteomics.

John MacMillan -- Isolation and structural determination of biologically active natural products from marine bacteria; new methodology for stereochemical assignment; medicinal chemistry.

Joseph Ready -- Discovery and application of new chemical reactions; total synthesis of complex molecules.