Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Molecular Design/Medicinal

• Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins; molecular design

• Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions

• Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene expression

• Organometallic chemistry: reactions, mechanisms, photochemistry, and catalysis

• Total synthesis of natural products and the development of new synthetic methods

• Computational studies of molecular electronic structure

• Host-guest chemistry and peptide chemistry

• Natural product total synthesis, development of synthetic vaccines, design and synthesis of complex proteins