Faculty

Aronson, Nathan N., Ph.D., Professor and Chair 
(251) 460-6402, email: naronson@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Family 18 chitinases and related proteins: Structure and function in tissue remodeling; glycoprotein degradation and human disease

Barik, Sailen, Ph.D., Professor 
(251) 460-6860. email: sbarik@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Signal transduction in relation to gene regulation in infectious agents, functional genomics, reversible phosphorylation, structure-function analysis of protein kinases, phosphatases, and their physiological substrates.

Funkhouser, Jane D.  Ph.D., Professor 
(251) 460-6843, email: jfunkhouser@usamail.usouthal.edu
Lung epithelial cell differentiation, fetal lung development, mechanisms associated with lung injury, cell-surface aminopeptidases as regulators of signaling in epithelial cells.

Honkanen, Richard E., Ph.D., Professor 
(251) 460-6859, email: honkanen@sungcg.usouthal.edu
Protein phosphatases (molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis; mechanisms of cardioprotective agents in ischemic myocytes).

Nair, Madhavan G., Ph.D., Professor
(251) 460-6857, email: gnair@usamail.usouthal.edu
Anti-Cancer drug development; metabolism-based drug design of antifolates; biochemical pharmacology of natural products; synthetic organic chemistry; metabolism of antifolate drugs

Gaubatz, James W. Ph.D., Associate Professor 
(251) 460-6852, email: gaubatzj@sungcg.usouthal.edu
Nutritional factors in cancer; food mutagens and chemoprevention/DNA damage and repair/mechanisms of mammalian aging.

Lane, Roger S. Ph.D., Associate Professor 
(251) 460-6842, email: rlane@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Medical Biochemistry Education

Adjunct Faculty

Baliga, S.B., Ph.D. (251) 471-7816
Bencsath, F.A., Ph.D. (251) 460-7275
Flodin, N.W., Ph.D. (251) 460-6853
Sjoholm, A., M.D., Ph.D.
Turrens, J.F.,  Ph.D. (251) 380-2710



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