John E. Baatz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Division of
Neonatology
Membrane surfactant protein structure and function

Craig Beeson, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Structure and function of peptide-MHC complexes

Daniel W. Bearden, Ph.D.
National Ocean Service
Biomolecular structure elucidation with NMR, kinetics and dynamics

Erika Bullesbach, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Molecular recognition of proteohormones and their receptors

Mark Busman, Ph.D.
Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences
Analysis of proteins, peptides and lipids for study of signalling processes

Craig Crosson, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman for Research
Department of Ophthalmology
Role of small heat shock protein in the modulation of caspase activity

Rosalie K. Crouch, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry
Rhodopsin as a model for G-protein receptors

Thomas A. Dix, Ph.D.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Rational drug design

Andrew Gelasco, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Assembly and activation of renal NADPH oxidase

Yusuf A. Hannun, M.D.
Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor and Chairman
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structure and function of enzymes of lipid metabolism

Daniel R. Knapp, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology
Director, MUSC Proteomics Center
Mass spectrometry; protein structure and function, proteomics

Masahiro Kono, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Structure and Function of G protein-coupled receptors

Harold D. May, B.S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
Halogen cycling, PCB's, microbial diversity, biodegradation, microbial biocatalysis, dehalogenases and halogenases

Paul J. McDermott, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Cardiac hypertrophy, protein synthesis, and translation

Donald R. Menick, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Structure and function of membrane transport proteins

Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Structural analysis of telomere binding proteins

Adam J. Smolka, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
Structure/function of membrane transporters

Eleanor K. Spicer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Crystallography of reg A protein/RNA complexes

Stephen Tomlinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Role of complement & complement inhibitors in tumorigenesis and immune response to cancer
Structure and function of complement inhibitory proteins