Faculty & Research
Analytical Chemistry
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Catherine Benztley PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-8581 Dr. Benztley applies mass spectrometry to identify biologically important molecules including oligonucleotides, volatile organic compounds, and steroids, in an array of samples, from commercial beverages to meat products . |
 Charles McEwen PhD
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-8552 Dr. McEwen develops new ionization methods and integrates them into commericial atmospheric pressure ion sources, making them capable of nearly universal ionization.
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Biochemistry & Biophysical Chemistry
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 Nathan Baird PhD
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7396 Dr. Baird employs a battery of techniques, including high-throughput screening and structural methods, to identify and characterize lead compounds that modulate RNA structure and function. His group aims to establish novel assays for devoping therapeautics that target RNA.
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Michael Bruist PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">mThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-8530 Dr. Bruist uses a combination of experimental and computational appraches to study DNA and RNA, and the proteins that interacts with them.
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 Yumee Koo, PhD
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7546 Dr. Koo studies the mechanisms of protein-lipid and protein-inhibitor interactions.
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 Zhihong Wang PhD
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7082 Dr. Wang focuses on oncogenic kinases that play a significant role in human cancers. With the goal of developing new cancer therapies, the Wang Laboratory applies biochemical, biological, and structural tools to understand the molecular mechanism of aberrant signaling processes in tumor cells |
Organic & Medicinal Chemistry
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Elisabetta Fasella PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7541 Dr. Fasella is interested in the development of green organic synthesis methods.
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James McKee PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-8847 Dr. McKee researches the synthesis of antibiotics- sulfonanilides and sulfones in particular- as well as the preparation of heterocyclic compounds with medical applications. |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7395 Dr. Tomsho develops new agents for treating diseases. He and his team combine tools from chemistry and biology to discover synthetic and bio-inspired small molecules and peptides that inhibit enzymes and protein-protein interactions.
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Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-8836 Dr. Sidorenko focuses on materials science and nanochemistry. His group synthesizes polymers and biopolymers and designs and modifies thin films as well as nanostructured and hybrid ("smart") materials.
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Computational Chemistry & Bioinformatics
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7537 Dr. Moore applies sophisticated computer modeling to understand membrane biophysics and develops new computational chemistry methods that allow the simulation and design of biological relevant nanostructures. |
Zhijun Li PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-596-7539 Dr. Li focuses on generation and analysis of 3D structures of proteins using computational and bioinformatics tools. His group relies on a broad range of techniques to tackle complex biological problems in multiple dimensions.
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Zhiwei Liu PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295-3910 Dr. Liu studies chemical, biological, and biomedical systems to gain molecular insight into mechanisms of chemical reactions, structure, and dynamics as well as biological functions.
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295-8551 Dr. Pophristic uses computational tools to study structures and dynamics of chemical structures that mimic 3D motifs found in biomolecules. Her group also works on computaional design of oligomers for therapeautic applications. |
Randy Zauhar PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295-8691 Dr. Zauhar works in computer-aided drug discovery and molecular biophysics. He develops new computational tools for indentifying candidate drug molecules, and his group is activeily deceloping new cancer therapeautics and antimicrobials.
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Physical Chemistry
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Frederick Schaefer PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295-8842 Dr. Schaefer has research interests in physical and polymer chemistry that include characterization of macromolecules in solutions using optical techniques.
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 Rodney Wigent PhD
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295- Dr. Wigent focuses on solution thermodynamics, physical biochemistry, and pharmaceutics, using a wide variety of physicochemical techniques. |
Chemical Education
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Madhu Mahalingam PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295-8842 Dr. Mahalingam is interested in the development and adoption of methodologies in chemistry instruction that enable students to become engaged learners, shifting the focus from faculty instruction to student learning.
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Elisabeth Morlino PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 215-295-7549 |