20 faculty and 0 courses in Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University.
- Xiao Li, Faculty h-index 103
Human diseases are caused by the interplay between gene and environment. Deep sequencing reveals millions of mutations between the genomes of unrelated individuals; however, the consequences of these mutations remain mostly unclear. B
- Christopher Hubert, Faculty h-index 94
Brain tumors can be among the most lethal cancers known, and are now the most frequent cause of cancer death in adolescents and young adults. Advanced brain tumors are driven by cancer stem cells and have extreme cellular diversity, with di
- William P. Schiemann, Faculty h-index 63
TGFβ & Cell Signaling Breast Cancer Metastasis & Recurrence Metastatic Dormancy Breast Cancer Stem Cells Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition Tumor Heterogeneity Noncoding RNAs Epigenome Research Projects Metastatic breast cancer
- Xin Liu, Faculty h-index 52
My lab is interested in understanding how the immune system responds to a variety of insults (e.g. bacteria, viruses, tumors) to control human diseases (e.g. infectious diseases and cancer). Increasing evidence has implicated that metabolis
- Tae Hun Kim, Faculty h-index 51
Human cells store approximately 3 billion base pairs of DNA in the nucleus, which would be roughly 2 meters long if fully extended. However, the DNA is contained within the nucleus, which is only around 6 μm in diameter, due to compaction b
- Hung-Ying Kao, Faculty h-index 40
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women, with an estimated 276,500 new cases and 42,000 deaths in the US in 2020 . BCs can be further classified into three subtypes, based on their molecular identifications: Estrogen Rec
- Boaz Tirosh, Faculty h-index 36
Survival of organisms requires adaptations to stress conditions. While acute stress conditions primarily direct cells to apoptosis, chronic conditions may irreversibly affect cell function and lead to pathologies, such as diabetes, inflamma
- Joseph Luna, Faculty h-index 21
RNA-binding proteins regulate nearly every step of gene expression, and for many of them we have a reasonable catalog of what they bind. What remains poorly understood is how they are organized, how their activities are coordinated across c
- Susan Wang, Faculty h-index 19
Please note that Dr. Wang does not currently have an active lab and is not accepting any new students at this time. The radical SAM (S-adenosyl-L-methionine) enzyme superfamily was initially described in 2001. The members of this supe
- J. Alan Diehl, Faculty h-index 19
Dr. Diehl’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression with specific focus on the regulation of cell division and post-translational in cancer. The Diehl lab also explores the interconnections of lipid
- Kaixiang Cao, Faculty h-index 19
Epigenetic mechanisms play a central role in regulating cell fate determination processes during normal development and pathogenesis. Deciphering these mechanisms will shed light on developing novel therapies for treating human developmenta
- Leah Gates, Faculty h-index 15
The Gates lab studies the intersection between metabolism, chromatin, and gene regulation. We aim to discover how metabolite signaling to chromatin impacts cell and tissue function in health and disease. Research Projects The precise
- Mohammad Nazim, Faculty h-index 10
Defining the mechanistic interface between post-transcriptional RNA regulation and chromatin regulation that controls transcriptional and epigenetic programs underlying stem cell maintenance, cellular differentiation, tissue development, an
- Ryan Arvidson, Faculty h-index 7
My research interests lie in combining bioinformatics, molecular modeling, and cell biology techniques to understand structure-function relationships in the activation of G-protein coupled receptors. We use this approach to understand
- Focco van den Akker, Faculty
The van den Akker lab focuses on structure-function and inhibitor design studies to combat antibiotic resistance.
- Jonatha Gott, Faculty
My research focuses on RNA editing, the extraordinary process by which the primary sequence of specific RNAs are altered, leaving the genomic sequence unchanged. Such directed changes in RNA sequence occur in mammalian cells, viruses, plant
- Nathan Howell, Faculty
Please note that I do not have an active lab, and can only offer research and mentoring experiences connected to pedagogy. My previous research focused on the process of tRNA modification, where individual tRNA molecules are decorated with
- Vivien C. Yee, Faculty
Dr. Yee's research interests span a variety of biomedically important proteins and enzymes with interesting mechanistic questions. Her lab has studied proteins involved in drug metabolism, neurodegenerative disorders, and antiviral defense
- Wenjian Gan, Faculty
Genome sequencing revealed that there are approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome. However, one million proteins with distinct functions are predicted in the human proteome. Post-translational modification (PTM) is a m
- Yi Zhang, Faculty
Selective autophagy, chromatin biology and epigenetics, and biomolecular condensates. Yi Zhang's Biography Research Information Research Interests Dr. Zhang’s research investigates topics at the interface of chemistry and bio
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