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Gillian M. Air, Professor, Ph.D., George Lynn Cross Research Professor, New South Wales (Australia), 1971. Molecular biology of influenza virus; mechanisms of antigenic variation; development of antiviral agents.

Sanjay Bidichandani, Associate Professor, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. University of Poona (India), 1990 and University of Glasgow (U.K.), 1994. Molecular genetics and pathophysiology of Friedreich's ataxia; Molecular biology of the GAA triplet repeat expansion; Mutational mechanisms in inherited human disease.

Robert H. Broyles, Professor, Ph.D., Wake Forest, 1970. Biochemistry of development and differentiation; regulation of globin genes and developmental hemoglobin switching.

Paul L. DeAngelis, Professor, Ph.D., California, Irvine, 1990. Exploration of complex carbohydrate biosynthesis in bacteria, viruses, and animals using the tools of biochemical analysis and molecular biology.

Jay S. Hanas, Associate Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1981. Regulation of gene expression by zinc and other small molecules; gene expression analysis in cancer and other disease states

Martin Levine, Associate Professor, B.D.S., 1964, Ph.D., 1973, Glasgow. Biochemical and immunological approaches to the study of dental caries and periodontal disease; immunochemistry.

Guangpu Li, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,Washington (St.Louis), 1991. Vesicular transport of proteins and lipids: molecular mechanism and its role in virus infection and hormone secretion.

Jialing Lin, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, 1994. Bcl-2 family proteins regulated cell death and its relationship to development and treatment of cancer;

Biosynthesis and functional structure of membrane proteins.

Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Professor, Ph.D., Kyoto (Japan), 1977. Molecular mechanism of visual excitation; role of protein phosphorylation in neuronal function; molecular biology of cellular regulation in neurons.

Blaine Mooers, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1997.  Structural biology of messenger RNA editing in the mitochondria of trypanosomes using X-ray crystallography and  other physical techniques.

Ann Louise Olson, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Iowa, 1986. Transcriptional regulation of the insulin-regulated facilitative glucose transporter (GLUT4) gene; mechanisms of insulin-mediated GLUT4 translocation.

Karla Rodgers, Assocciate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1991. Structure and function studies of proteins that catalyze DNA recombination. Biophysical investigations of DNA-binding and zinc metalloproteins.

Robert A. Steinberg, Professor, Ph.D., California, San Francisco, 1975. Somatic-cell and molecular genetic analysis of transmembrane signaling systems in cultured mammalian cell lines; structure, function, and regulation of cyclic AMP- dependent protein kinase.

Leon Unger, Professor, David Ross Boyd Professorship, Ph.D., Illinois, 1961. Genetics and biochemistry of plant tumors induced by bacterial plasmids; biochemical genetics.

Paul H. Weigel, Professor and Chairman, George Lynn Cross Research Professor, Ed Miller Endowed Chair, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1975. Structure and function of hyaluronic acid binding proteins/receptors and endocytic, recycling receptors; regulation of hyaluronic acid synthesis and degradation.

Christopher M. West, Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1978. Glycoregulation in the cytoplasm and the nucleus; Assembly of the Dictyostelium spore coat.

Adam Zlotnick, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1994. Structural basis of the assembly of virus capsids and other multi-protein complexes using X-ray crystallography and solution biophysical techniques.

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