Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA

Lars Dreier

Lars Dreier, Ph.D., joined the Department of Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in 2006. He received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the Free University at Berlin, Germany, and did his Ph.D. research in the Department of Cell...

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Gabriel H. Travis

Gabriel H. Travis is a biochemist and molecular biologist who has been on the faculty at UCLA in Ophthalmology and Biological Chemistry since 2001. Dr. Travis earned his BS degree in chemistry at UCLA, and his MD at UCLA School of Medicine. After...

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Heather Christofk

Dr. Christofk received her B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA in 2001.  She conducted undergraduate research on growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase-mediated signaling pathways in the laboratory of Hong Wu for three...

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Weizhe Hong

Dr. Weizhe Hong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Hong received a B.S. degree in biological sciences at Tsinghua University. When he...

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Tamir Gonen

Dr Gonen is an expert in electron crystallography and cryo EM. He determined the 1.9Å resolution structure of the water channel aquaporin-0 by electron crystallography, the highest resolution for any protein determined by cryo EM techniques at...

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Thomas A. Vallim

Dr. Vallim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at UCLA. Dr. Vallim was born in Brazil and emigrated to England as a teenager. In England, Dr. Vallim...

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Keriann M. Backus

Keriann M. Backus, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. Dr. Backus received her B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in...

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Peter Tontonoz

Dr. Tontonoz is Professor and the Francis and Albert Piansky Endowed Chair in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School. His Ph.D. thesis was carried out at...

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