Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA

Leonard H. Rome

Leonard H. Rome, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry and Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He served as the Senior Associate Dean for Research in the School of Medicine from 1997 to 2012. Dr. Rome...

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Kathrin Plath

Kathrin Plath, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biological Chemistry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Born in Germany, she received her master’s degree in Biochemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin, examining MAP kinase signaling...

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Gregory S. Payne

Gregory S. Payne, Ph.D., is Professor of Biological Chemistry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry and honors in drama from the University of Michigan.  As a graduate student in the Biochemistry...

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Pascal F. Egea

Pascal Egea received is B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lyon, France) in 1991. He then went to graduate school at the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) where he studied the structure...

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Siavash K. Kurdistani

Siavash K. Kurdistani, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Kurdistani is also the Associate Director of the Gene Regulation Program...

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Leonid Kruglyak

Leonid Kruglyak, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Diller-von Furstenberg Endowed Chair in Human Genetics. Dr. Kruglyak received his A.B. degree...

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Reid C. Johnson

Reid C. Johnson is a Professor of Biological Chemistry in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he joined the faculty in 1986. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and did postdoctoral work at Caltech...

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Harvey R. Herschman

Harvey R. Herschman, Ph.D is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and in the Department of Biological Chemistry. He is also the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Molecular...

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Feng Guo

Dr. Guo is a structural biologist and biochemist who joined the UCLA School of Medicine faculty in July 2004. He earned his B.S. in Biophysics at the Nankai University and M.S. in Physical Chemistry at the Peking University, both in China. Dr...

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Alison R. Frand

Alison joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Chemistry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in March of 2007. She began studying the molting cycle of C. elegans as a post-doctoral research associate in the laboratory of...

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David S. Eisenberg

David Eisenberg is currently Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, as well as HHMI Investigator.  Before he came to UCLA, Eisenberg earned an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College and a D.Phil. from Oxford...

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Edward M. De Robertis

Born in Boston, Mass., Edward M. De Robertis grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay where he received his M.D. in 1971.  After completing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Leloir Institute in Argentina, he trained in Xenopus embryology under Sir John Gurdon in...

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