Biological Chemistry Faculty
Please visit our Faculty Index for participating faculty accepting PhD students from the Biological Chemistry Program!
Faculty from the Departments of Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncological Sciences, Pharmaceutics / Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Pharmacology and Toxicology are availble for rotations and thesis research. BCP students have a variety of choices to carry out cutting-edge research mentored by world-class scientists.
Biological Chemistry Affiliate Faculty
A number of University of Utah faculty are affiliated with the Biological Chemistry Program and have active research labs but who are not currently taking PhD students. These faculty are included in the Affiliate list below.
Name |
Department |
Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Blumenthal, Don | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Protein Kinases |
| Bock, Susan | Bioengineering | Protein Conformational Change & Targeting |
| Chou, Danny | Biochemistry | Diabetes, Insulin, Peptide and Protein Therapeutics, Chemical Biology |
| Flynn, Peter | Chemistry | Biological NMR and Biophysics |
| Goldenberg, David | School of Biological Sciences | Protein Biophysics |
| Ireland, Chris | Medicinal Chemistry | Marine Natural Products |
| Lindsley, Janet | Biochemistry | Teaching Metabolism and Nutrition |
| Prestwich, Glenn | Medicinal Chemistry | Therapeutic Biomaterials |
| Safavi-Hemami, Helena | Biochemistry | Animal venoms, drug discovery, natural products, venom evolution, therapeutics, diabetes, pain |
| Villanueva, Claudio | Biochemistry | Transcriptional Regulation and Energy Metabolism |
| Winge, Dennis | Biochemistry | Mitochondria, OXPHOS Respiration, Assembly of Respiratory Complexes |