Our faculty members are dedicated to teaching and inspiring our graduate, post-doctoral and medical students. Areas of research focus range from cancer biology to molecular and cellular biology within several model systems. Please click on individual Principal Investigators link for specific details.
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Drs. Wen-Hwa Lee ,Douglas Wallace and Eva Lee
- Wen-Hwa Lee, Donald Bren Professor of Biomedicine and Dept Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981
A pioneer in the research on tumor-suppressor genes and why the repair mechanisms for DNA can fail and cause subsequent accumulations of cancer-promoting mutations.
- Bogi Andersen, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
M.D., University of Iceland, 1981
Transcriptional regulation in normal and diseased epithelia
- Pierre Baldi, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Ph.D. Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1986
Bioinformatics / Computational Biology /Systems Biology / Chemoinformatics / Drug Discovery
Probabilistic Modeling / Machine Learning /Statistical Datamining
- Phang-Lang Chen, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1991
Critical role of tumor suppressor genes in the genesis and progression of cancer
- Xing Dai, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1995
Role of the regulatory proteins Ovo in germ cell and epidermal differentiation
- Peter Donovan, Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology
Ph.D., University College, London 1989
- Peter Kaiser, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1994
Control of the cell cycle through mechanisms involving ubiquitination
- Eva Y.-H. P. Lee, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1984
Cell cycle checkpoint pathways and molecular genetics studies of breast cancer using mouse model systems
- Leonid E. Lerner, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- Ellis R. Levin, Professor, Department of Medicine
M.D., Jefferson Medical School, 1975
The plasma membrane estrogen receptor (ER) and its effects on the biology of estrogen action
- Steve Lipkin, Associate Professor , Department of Medicine
M.D./Ph.D.
DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is critical for maintaining both mitotic and meiotic genomic integrity.
- Haoping Liu, Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991
MAP kinase mediated signal transduction; dimorphic regulation in yeast.
- Leslie Lock, Asst. Adj.Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco 1985
- Calvin S. McLaughlin, Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964
Macromolecule biosynthesis; control of cell division
- Frank L. Meyskens, Professor
M.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1972
Biology of human melanocytes and melanomas
- Robert K. Moyzis, Professor and Human Genomics Coordinator for the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1978
Chromosome structure and gene expression; Human telomere and centromere organization and function.
- Masayasu Nomura, Grace Bell Professor
Ph.D., University of Tokyo, 1957
RNA Polymerase I; nuclear transport and function
- Daniele Piomelli, Professor and Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences, Pharmacology
Ph.D., Columbia University
cellular pharmacology, neuropharmacology
- Suzanne Sandmeyer, Professor and Director, UCI DNA and Protein MicroArray Facility
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1980
Molecular genetics of a position-specific yeast retrovirus-like element
- Rob Steele, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1980
Molecular biology of Hydra development
- Leslie Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1988
Human genetic disorders
- Paul Vrana, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1994
Control of mammalian growth through imprinting
- Doug Wallace, Professor
Ph.D.
- Sara T. Winokur, Associate Researcher
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1995
Molecular pathogenesis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)
- Kyoko Yokomori, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1991
Mechanism and regulation of chromosome structural changes required for the maintenance of genome integrity
