Faculty Members
Pengpeng Bi
Associate Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine
Department of Genetics
Human muscle development and diseases
David Crich
Affiliate Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine and GRA Eminent Scholar
Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences
Faculty profile
david.crich@uga.edu
Medicinal chemistry, drug design, carbohydrate chemistry.
Kosuke Funato
Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pediatric and adult brain cancers, cancer modeling, cancer cells of origin, glioma stem cells
Natalia Ivanova
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ivanova Lab
natalia.ivanova@uga.edu
Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms regulating preimplantation development, pluripotency differentiation and cellular reprogramming in humans
Nathan Lewis
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, GRA Eminent Scholar in Molecular Biology, Joint Scholar of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Uses AI to identify gene expression patterns in disease to predict and model drug sensitivities; manufacturing of biologics for testing efficacy
Fabio Santori
Associate Research Scientist, Center for Molecular Medicine
Nuclear hormone receptors, Immunology and lipid metabolism
Christopher West
Associate Director of the CMM, Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Glycobiology of parasites and roles in oxygen sensing, protein degeneration, and virulence
Rob Woods
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Molecular Medicine
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Distinguished Research Professor of Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Glycomimetic design and synthesis, molecular simulation, protein glycosylation, carbohydrate-protein recognition
Hang Yin
Associate Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Muscle stem cells, obesity, type 2 diabetes
Nadja Zeltner
Associate Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine
Department of Cellular Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Zeltner Lab
nadja.zeltner@uga.edu
Peripheral neurons, adrenal gland biology, neural disease modeling, neural stem cells