UCI School of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry

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Drs. Wen-Hwa Lee ,Douglas Wallace and Eva Lee

Bogi Andersen, Professor, Department of Medicine: M.D., University of Iceland, 1981; Transcriptional regulation in normal and diseased epithelia

Pierre Baldi, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics: Ph.D. Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1986; Bioinformatics / Computational Biology /Systems Biology / Chemoinformatics / Drug Discovery; Probabilistic Modeling / Machine Learning /Statistical Datamining

Phang-Lang Chen, Associate Professor: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1991; Critical role of tumor suppressor genes in the genesis and progression of cancer

Xing Dai, Associate Professor and Vice Chair: Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1995; Transcriptional/chromatin control of epithelial stem cells

Peter Donovan, Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology: Ph.D., University College, London 1989

Peter Kaiser, Associate Professor: Ph.D. University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1994; Control of the cell cycle through mechanisms involving ubiquitination

Eva Y.-H. P. Lee, Professor: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1984; Cell cycle checkpoint pathways and molecular genetics studies of breast cancer using mouse model systems

Leonid E. Lerner, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Ellis R. Levin, Professor, Department of Medicine: M.D., Jefferson Medical School, 1975; The plasma membrane estrogen receptor (ER) and its effects on the biology of estrogen action

Haoping Liu, Professor: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991; MAP kinase mediated signal transduction; dimorphic regulation in yeast.

Leslie Lock, Asst. Adj.Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology: Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco 1985

Calvin S. McLaughlin, Professor: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964; Macromolecule biosynthesis; control of cell division

Frank L. Meyskens, Professor: M.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1972; Biology of human melanocytes and melanomas

Robert K. Moyzis, Professor and Human Genomics Coordinator for the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics: Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1978; Chromosome structure and gene expression; Human telomere and centromere organization and function.

Masayasu Nomura, Grace Bell Professor: Ph.D., University of Tokyo, 1957; RNA Polymerase I; ribosome synthesis and growth regulation

Daniele Piomelli, Professor and Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences, Pharmacology: Ph.D., Columbia University; cellular pharmacology, neuropharmacology

Suzanne Sandmeyer, Professor and Director, UCI DNA and Protein MicroArray Facility and Associate Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics: Ph.D., University of Washington, 1980; Molecular genetics of a position-specific yeast retrovirus-like element

Leslie Thompson, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1988; Human genetic disorders

Doug Wallace, Professor: Ph.D.

Sara T. Winokur, Associate Researcher: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1995; Molecular pathogenesis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)

Yi Hong Zhou, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery: Ph.D., Dalhousie University, 1994; Biology of human brain cancer