Faculty
Core Faculty
Core Faculty
Yinglong Miao
Assistant Professormiao@ku.edu
785-864-8298
Research: Biomolecular modeling, cellular signaling and computer-aided drug design
Joanna Slusky
Associate Professorslusky@ku.edu
785-864-6506
Research: Exploring membrane protein folding through protein design, bioinformatics, and molecular biology.
Ilya Vakser
Director, Professorvakser@ku.edu
785-864-1057
Research: Molecular Recognition in Structural Bioinformatics
Research Faculty
Research Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Brian Ackley
Associate Professorbdackley@ku.edu
Research: Interaction between neurons and their environment.
Kyle Camarda
Associate Professorcamarda@ku.edu
Research: High-performance computing for design of new biological agents.
Roberto De Guzman
Professorrdguzman@ku.edu
Research: Structural studies of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions in bacterial and viral pathogenesis.
Susan Egan
Professor, Chair, Department of Molecular Biosciencessme@ku.edu
Research: Molecular mechanisms of bacterial transcription activation; AraC family proteins.
Christopher Fischer
Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Director of Engineering Physics Programshark@ku.edu
Research: Kinetics and the thermodynamics of protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions.
Ryan Funk
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practiceryanfunk@kumc.edu
913-945-6904
Research: Pediatrics, Clinical Pharmacology, Rheumatology
Robert Hanzlik
Professorrhanzlik@ku.edu
Research: Medicinal Chemistry. Identification and proteomic analysis of target proteins in relation to cytotoxicity of chemically reactive metabolites. Mechanistic studies of cytochrome P450 family enzymes.
Leslie Heckert
Professor, Marion M. Osborn Professor for Reproductive Scienceslheckert@kumc.edu
913-588-7488
Research: Molecular mechanisms that regulate cellular differentiation and organ development of the reproductive system.
P. Scott Hefty
Professorpshefty@ku.edu
Research: Mechanisms of developmental gene regulation and pathogenesis for Chlamydia.
Krzysztof Kuczera
Professorkkuczera@ku.edu
Research: Methods of modern computational chemistry to study structure, dynamics and thermodynamics of complex molecular systems.
Erik Lundquist
Professor, Associate Vice Chancellor for Researcherikl@ku.edu
Research: Molecular signaling events that underlie cellular morphogenesis.
Stuart Macdonald
Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Molecular Biosciencessjmac@ku.edu
Research: Genetics of complex traits, Genome biology, Drosophila quantitative genetics.
Russ Middaugh
Distinguished Professormiddaugh@ku.edu
Research: Stability of peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, macromolecular assemblies, virus like particles, viruses and bacteria that are of pharmaceutical interest
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Professorbozenna@ku.edu
Research: Stochastic adaptive control and Mathematics and Science education.
Christian Schöneich
Takeru Higuchi Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Dept. Chair - Pharmaceutical Chemistryschoneic@ku.edu
Research: Oxidative post-translational modification of proteins in vitro and in vivo.
Peter Smith
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Senior Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine, Wineinger Endowed Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiologypsmith@kumc.edu
Research: Nerve regulation in a variety of systems including the cardiovascular system, eye, skin, and reproductive tract.
Barbara Timmermann
University Distinguished Professor, Department Chair - Medicinal Chemistrybtimmer@ku.edu
Research: Natural products at chemistry-biology interface.
Robert Unckless
Associate Professorunckless@ku.edu
785-864-1679
Research: Evolutionary genetics and genomics of insect immune defense.
Cuncong Zhong
Assistant Professorcczhong@ku.edu
Research: Metagenomics, cancer genomics, non-coding RNA function and structures, machine learning, and algorithms and data structures