Faculty Department Chair Steven C. Almo, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Chair Department of Biochemistry Wollowick Family Foundation Chair in Multiple Sclerosis and Immunology Director, Einstein Macromolecular Therapeutics Developmental Facility Co-Leader, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Therapeutics Program 718.430.2746steve.almo@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Lab Heads Michael D. Brenowitz, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology 718.430.3179michael.brenowitz@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Exploring how protein, DNA, and RNA structure, folding, and assembly determines the biological function of these macromolecules. View Profile Anne R. Bresnick, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs Director, Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies Associate Director, Cancer Research Training and Education Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer 718.430.2741anne.bresnick@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Mechanisms mediating tumor cell migration, invasion and metastasis; development of novel drugs that target cell migration; regulation of the actin-based cytoskeleton View Profile Maureen J. Charron, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health Professor, Department of Medicine 718.430.2852maureen.charron@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Developmental origin of obesity and diabetes, high fat diet and obesity, animal models of metabolic disease, epigenetics and DNA methylation, glucose transporters and glucagon receptor View Profile David Cowburn, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology 718.430.8621david.cowburn@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Structural molecular biology; structure/function relationships in the immune system, signal transduction, and nuclear transport; NMR; integration of simulation of time dependent processes and experiments; protein engineering. View Profile Evripidis Gavathiotis, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology) Professor, Department of Oncology (Medical Oncology) Co-Leader, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Therapeutics Program 718.430.3725evripidis.gavathiotis@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: chemical biology, structural biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, BCL-2 family proteins, protein-protein interactions, kinase signaling, cell death, apoptosis, mitochondria, autophagy, cancer, aging View Profile Arne Gennerich, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.4287arne.gennerich@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Molecular mechanisms of microtubule-based motor proteins in health and disease, transcription elongation by RNA polymerases I, II and III, single-molecule biophysics, development and application of single-molecule technologies. View Profile Tyler L. Grove, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2745tyler.grove@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Seiya Kitamura, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3096seiya.kitamura@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Chemical Biology, medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery View Profile Jonathan R. Lai, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Dan Danciger Professor of Biochemistry 718.678.1024jon.lai@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Protein chemistry, antibody engineering, antibody isolation, vaccine design, immunotherapy, virology View Profile Juan P. Maianti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.8641juan.maianti@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Denis L. Rousseau, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3592denis.rousseau@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Cytochrome c oxidase structure, function and dynamics. Catalytic mechanism of the membrane-bound enzymes probed by time resolved resonance Raman scattering, time resolved X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy. View Profile Vern L. Schramm, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry 718.430.2813vern.schramm@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Enzymatic transition states are solved by isotope effects and quantum chemistry. This knowledge permits drug design for cancers, antibiotics and other disorders. Protein dynamics in catalysis is a second focus. View Profile David Shechter, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.4120david.shechter@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Chromatin biology and epigenetics; structural and post-translational regulation of histone chaperones; molecular mechanisms and biological function of protein arginine methyltransferases; intrinsic disorder and structural biology; RNA transcription, splic View Profile Simone Sidoli, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3475simone.sidoli@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Chromatin biology, proteomics, mass spectrometry View Profile Hernando J. Sosa, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3456hernando.sosa@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Structure and function of the cytoskeleton. Biological molecular motors. Kinesins. Structural biology. Cryo-electron microscopy. Single molecule florescence microscopy. View Profile Howard M. Steinman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Assistant Dean for Biomedical Science Education 718.430.3010howard.steinman@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Bacterial pathogenesis, Legionnaires'Disease, Legionella pneumophila, Medical education View Profile Ian M. Willis, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology 718.430.2839ian.willis@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: RNA polymerase III transcription and its repression by Maf1; Mechanisms of obesity resistance in Maf1 knockout mice; Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Pol III-related leukodystrophy View Profile Syun-Ru Yeh, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.4234syun-ru.yeh@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Spectroscopy; Crystallography; High throughput screening; Medicinal chemistry; Protein engineering; Computational biology View Profile Secondary Faculty Jonathan M. Backer, M.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology Professor, Department of Biochemistry Chair Department of Molecular Pharmacology William S. Lasdon Chair in Pharmacology Department of Molecular Pharmacology Associate Director, Shared Resources Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center 718.430.2153jonathan.backer@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Signal transduction; Phosphoinositide kinases; Tumor metastasis; Vesicular trafficking; macropinocytosis View Profile Andras Fiser, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.678.1068andras.fiser@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: receptor-ligand recognition in the immunological synapse; protein structure modeling and design; transcription factor recognition of cognate DNA binding sites; modeling of gene regulatory networks; View Profile Victor B. Hatcher, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Professor, Department of Medicine Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development Associate Dean for Research Administration 718.920.6674vhatcher@montefiore.org View Profile Izumi Ishigami, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2899izumi.ishigami@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Victor L. Schuster, M.D. Professor, Department of Medicine (Nephrology) Professor, Department of Biochemistry Senior Associate Dean Ted and Florence Baumritter Chair in Medicine 718.430.2910victor.schuster@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Emeritus Faculty Robert Callender, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2814robert.callender@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Enzymology, mechanism and function of enzymes, protein structure and dynamics, drug design View Profile Sasha Englard, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3031sasha.englard@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Mark E. Girvin, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2724mark.girvin@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Membrane protein structure and function; bacterial multi-drug resistance efflux pumps; protein NMR spectroscopy View Profile Birgit H. Satir, Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.4063birgit.satir@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Other Faculty Ruth H. Angeletti, Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology Professor Emerita, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3475ruth.angeletti@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: proteomics for basic and translational research View Profile Ana B. Asenjo, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3451ana.asenjo@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Matthieu Benoit, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry View Profile Jeffrey B. Bonanno, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2745jeffrey.bonanno@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Sean M. Cahill, Ph.D. Senior Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2035sean.cahill@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) of small molecules and biomolecules View Profile Alev Celikgil, M.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.678.1182acelikgi@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: Microarray development for DNA and protein arrays. High-throughput recombinant protein expression in eukaryotic systems and downstream purification operations for endotoxin-free production as part of Macromolecular Therapeutics Development Facility. View Profile Swetha Chamala, M.S. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.678.1082swetha.chamala@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Dajun Chen, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2793dajun.chen@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Phaneendra K. Duddempudi, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2745phaneendra.duddempudi@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Natalia Dulianinova, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2742natalia.dulianinova@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Scott J. Garforth, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.678.1146scott.garforth@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Sarah C. Garrett, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.678.1082sarah.garrett@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: High throughput Screening Molecular Biology Protein Expression/Purification Mutagenesis View Profile Agnidipta Ghosh, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2745agnidipta.ghosh@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Subray Hegde, Ph.D. Instructor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3095subray.hegde@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Maynard H. Makman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.3032 View Profile Aldo B. Massimi, M.S.E.E. Senior Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry Director, DNA Microarray Facility 718.678.1082aldo.massimi@einsteinmed.edu View Profile Zaher O. Merhi, M.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2853zamerhi@montefiore.org Areas of Research: 1) Impact of advanced glycation end products and vitamin D on ovarian physiology, 2) Impact of metabolic syndrome, obesity and bariatric surgery on ovarian function. 3) PCOS View Profile Robyn D. Moir, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.2860robyn.moir@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: High throughput yeast genetics; molecular and quantitative biochemical analysis of transcription by RNA polymerase III; mechanism of action of the transcription repressor Maf1in yeast and mouse; RNA biology of Maf1 KO mice. View Profile Edward Nieves, B.S. Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology edward.nieves@einsteinmed.edu Areas of Research: The use of mass spectrometry in biological and biochemical research; areas such as the qualitative and quantitative analysis of proteins and their PTMs, small molecules and unknowns. View Profile Vasantha Kumar Machohally Venkateshaiah, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry 718.430.4623 View Profile