Emeritus Professor; Ph.D., 1952, D.Sc., 1970, University of Wales. Molecular biology of prostaglandins and steroid hormones; suicide inhibitors of reverse transcriptase as antiviral drugs; molecular mechanisms of aspirin action in immunological responses and cardiovascular disease.View Dr. Bailey's biography.

Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1973, Illinois Institute of Technology. Homeobox genes and cancer (breast cancer and leukemia); regulation of the human beta-globin gene; treatment of sickle cell anemia.View Dr. Berg's biography.

Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1985, D. Sc. 1995, University of Toulouse, France. Hepato-Intestinal diseases and carcinogenesis; hormones, bile acids and cell function. View Dr. Bouscarel's biography.

Associate professor; Ph.D. 1983, The Ohio State University. Transfer RNA modification in cancer and infectious disease. Natural products biochemistry; phytoestrogens and cancer. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology education program development. View Dr. Elliott's biography.

Emeritus Professor; Ph.D. 1969, George Washington University. Molecular mechanisms of cholesterol absorption; role of cholesterol esterase; cholesterol esterase inhibitors; intestinal lipoproteins; dietary cholesterol and atherosclerosis.View Dr. Gallo's biography.

Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Ph.D. 1964, Rutgers University. Chemical and biological properties of the thymosins; neuroimmunology; immunodeficiency diseases; cancer; AIDS; aging; and wound healing. View Dr. Goldstein's biography.

Professor; Ph.D. 1978, California Institute of Technology.Molecular and cellular responses to chronic intracellular radiation; cell cycle perturbations; apoptosis; stress-response; genomic and proteomic analyses of radiation effects; molecular and cell cycle-dependent regulation of gap junctions. View Dr. Hu's biography.

Professor; Ph.D. 1991, University of Kansas. Understanding human retrovirus gene expression, cell cycle associated events, microarray and proteomics of HIV-1 and HTLV-1. View Dr. Kashanchi's biography.

Associate Research Professor; M.D., Russian State Medical University (formerly Moscow 2nd Medical Institute)(1984) & Ph.D., Inst. Of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow (1988). Septic shock, macrophage activation, in vivo and in vitro nitric oxide and free radical detection by EPR spectroscopy, biomedical applications of EPR, dietary Mg deficiency and iron toxicity. View Dr. Komarov's biography.

Associate Research Professor; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (1982).Dietary Mg deficiency and chronic iron toxicity, isolated postischemic myocardial injury model, myocyte reoxygenation injury, indices of oxidative stress, free radical detection by EPR spectroscopy and antioxidant therapy. View Dr. Kramer's biography.

Professor; Ph.D. 1968, University of Chicago. Regulation of viral gene trans-activation; role of cellular factors; RNA protein interactions.View Dr. Kumar's biography.

Associate Research Professor; Ph.D. 1982, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Free radical pathobiology in cardiovascular cells; Antioxidant drug mechanisms and therapy; Role of the lysosome in iron overload; AZT toxicity; Mg-deficiency-induced inflammation.View Dr. Mak's biography.

Professor & Vice Chair; Ph.D. 1985, Purdue University. Understanding the molecular basis of acquired resistance to death in heart diseases, cancer and fibrosis. Extensive use of genomic methods to identify the causative genes in order to direct therapeutic interventions. Adult stem cells as a possible therapeutic tool in cardiovascular disease. View Dr. McCaffrey's biography.

Research Professor;MD 1962,National University of Mexico & PhD 1970,National Polytechnical Institute of Mexico. Dr.Rojkind has joint appointments in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pathology.Extracellular matrix in health and disease.Molecular mechanisms involved in liver fibrosis: Role of TGF-β1, oxidative stress and hydrogen peroxide.Role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in liver fibrosis. Characterization of a long-term culture of functional hepatocytes for the development of a liver bioreactor and an in vitro system to study replication of the hepatitis C virus. Cell-matrix interactions, with special emphasis in laminin-binding proteins of hepatocytes and hepatomas.View Dr. Rojkind's biography.

Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Tropical Medicine. Dr.Simon, M.D., Ph.D. is Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He has joint appointments in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and in Microbiology and Tropical Medicine. He has been a member of the GW faculty since 1980. He received his MD degree from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in physical chemistry. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore and did clinical and research fellowships in infectious diseases at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Simon is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (Laureate awardee) and the Infectious Disease Society of America. He was awarded the GW Distinguished Research Award in 2002. View Dr. Simon's biography.

Professor; Ph.D. 1966, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Regulation of eicosanoid metabolism by natural and pharmacological agents. View Dr. Vanderhoek's biography.

Professor & Vice Chair; Ph.D. 1963, Michigan State University.Human Nutrition; Medical and graduate education.

Professor; M.D. 1962, University of Maryland. Research in cardiology, Antioxidant Heart Drugs, Hyperlipidemia, Magnesium Deficiency Disorders.

Assistant Research Professor; PhD. 2002. German Cancer Research Center/Heidelberg University, Germany . Cellular responses of HIV- infected cells upon drug-treatment. Proteomics and genomics of HIV-1 and HTLV-1 infection. View Dr. Wu's biography.

Mahnaz Badamchian, Adjunct Associate Research Professor; Ph.D. 1983, Utah State University. Purification and characterization of synthetic AIDS vaccine (HGP30) and biologically active peptides from thymosin fraction 5; characterization and study of the mechanisms of action of different forms of choline O-acetyltransferase from rat brain.

Nicholas R. S. Hall, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. 1976, University of Florida. Interrelationships between the brain and immune system.

Kenneth C. Ingham, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. 1970, University of Colorado. Structure, function, and interactions of blood proteins; fibronectin, extracellular matrix. Click here for Kenneth C. Ingham's web site.

Daniel A. Lawrence, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1989, University of UMCA (Sweden). Thrombosis and hemostasis.

Marilyn M. Lightfoote, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1983, University of Virginia School of Medicine. Immunology and virology of AIDS.

Jonathan R. Merrill, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anatomy and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; M.D. 1989, George Washington University. Medical Informatics.

Terry W. Moody, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. 1977, California Institute of Technology. CNS neuropedtides; growth factor receptors in cancer cells; chemistry and biology of bombesin.

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. 1957, University of Michigan. Genetic code; regulatory mechanisms in synthesis of macromolecules.

Neil Notaroberto, Adjunct Assistant Professor; M.D. 1992, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Medical Informatics.

Rita Roy, Adjunct Assistant Research Professor; MSc, MD 1989, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Roy was the President and co-founder of Medical Consumer Media. She has an extensive background in Internet Technologies. Her educational and research experience combine a rare expertise in medicine and technology. She completed post-medical training in General Surgery at GWUMC.

Prem S. Sarin, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. 1962, University or Cambridge. Development of synthetic peptides as HIV vaccine candidates and diagnostics; cytokines in modulation of TH-1 and TH-2 immune responses.

Alexander Wlodawer, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D. 1974, UCLA. Protein Structure; development of techniques for x-ray and neutron crystallography.

Ray A. Wolf, Adjunct Assistant Professor

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