Employment within the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
 

The following faculty of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine seek applications for research associates and post-doctoral fellows to study the molecular aspects of a variety of human diseases.

• Douglas Andres, PhD
  Ras protein signal transduction;  neurodegenerative disorders and oncogenesis.

• Luke Bradley, PhD
  Central nervous system protein recognition, specificity, and design.
• Matthew Gentry, PhD
  Elucidating the role of phosphorylation and ubiquitination in neurodegenerative disease.
• Harry LeVine, PhD
  Conformational polymorphisms of Abeta amyloid in transgenic mouse models and Alzheimer’s disease brain.
• Andrew Morris, PhD
  Basic, clinical and translational studies of bioactive lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease.
• Sabire Ozcan, PhD
  Analysis of molecular defects in glucose metabolism leading to diabetes.
• H Peter Speilmann, PhD
  Protein prenylation and combinatorial drug synthesis.
• Stefan Stamm, PhD
  Mechanism of alternative splicing; Signal transduction pathways regulating alternative splicing; Alternative (mis)splicing and disease.
• Tom Vanaman, PhD
  Molecular basis of calcium/calmodulin dependent regulation of transcription.
• Craig Vander Kooi, PhD
  Cell Signaling & Tumor Angiogenesis.
• David Watt, PhD
  Interest in the development of new synthetic methods, the synthesis of natural products and the development of photoactive analogs of natural products for elucidating receptor binding.
• Qingjun Wang, PhD
  Molecular mechanism of mammalian autophagy and its relevance to human diseases.
• S W Whiteheart, PhD
  Molecular basis of platelet function.