CLP trainees will have the opportunity to participate in a broad range of research programs.  CLP faculty research programs feature an integrated, collaborative approach across disciplines. The 51 preceptors are best characterized as highly interdisciplinary with almost 39% holding multiple departmental appointments and 18% holding even more than two appointments.

Guillermo Antonio Ameer, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Development of biomaterials and nanotechnology for regenerative engineering and medicine, specifically tissue engineering, medical devices, drug delivery, and cell delivery applications to improve surgery outcomes and patient care

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Office: Tech B382
Phone: 847-467-2992
g-ameer@northwestern.edu

Daniel Arango, PhD

Pharmacology

Unraveling the molecular mechanisms by which post-transcriptional modifications of RNA regulate mRNA processing, stability, and translation and how this interplay affects cell fate decisions in cancer

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Office: Lurie 7-119
Phone: 312-503-0732
daniel.arangotamayo@northwestern.edu

Vadim Backman, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Optical imaging, coherent backscattering spectroscopy for tissue diagnosis, fractal organization of cells and tissues, light scattering and propagation in random/turbid media

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Office: Silverman Hall 3627
Phone: 847-391-3536
v-backman@northwestern.edu

Xiaomin Bao, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Epigenomic regulation of stem cell maintenance and differentiation

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Xiaomin Bao, PhD
Phone: 847-467-1833
Office: Pancoe 4413
xiaomin.bao@northwestern.edu

Issam Ben-Sahra, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Understanding the impact of metabolic pathways controlled by mTOR, a nutrient-sensing regulator of cell growth, on the properties of cells and tumors with specific upstream oncogenic pathways activated. 

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Office: Simpson Querrey 7520
Phone: 312-503-5318
issam.ben-sahra@northwestern.edu

 

Paul Burridge, PhD

Pharmacology

Pharmacogenomics of cardiac disease and drug toxicity

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Paul Burridge, PhD
Phone: 312-503-4895
Office: Searle 8-525
paul.burridge@northwestern.edu

Richard Carthew, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

RNAi and Gene Regulation

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Richard Carthew, PhD
Office: Pancoe 3111
Phone: 847-467-4891
r-carthew@northwestern.edu

Deyu Fang, PhD

Deyu Fang, PhD

Pathology

Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Regulation

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Office: Ward Building Room 3-140
Phone: 312-503-3021
fangd@northwestern.edu

Daniel R. Foltz, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Chromosome segregation during cell division ensuring the complete and accurate inheritance of the genome

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Office: Simpson Querrey 7-301
Phone: 312-503-5684
dfoltz@northwestern.edu

Alfred George, PhD

Pharmacology

Structure, function, pharmacology, and molecular genetics of ion channels

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Phone: 312-503-4893
Office: Searle 8-510
al.george@northwestern.edu

Nathan Gianneschi, PhD

Chemistry

 Fundamental and translational research into biomaterials, polymers, nanomaterials, in situ electron microscopy, biomimicry, therapeutics, diagnostics and novel functional materials

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Phone: 847-491-2105
Office: Tech J131
nathan.gianneschi@northwestern.edu

Cara J. Gottardi, PhD

Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Cell-cell adhesion in health and disease

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Phone: 312-503-4123
Office: Simpson Querry 525
c-gottardi@northwestern.edu

Erica Hartmann, PhD

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Focuses on understanding, at the molecular level, how microbial communities respond to anthropogenic chemicals and then using that information to influence real-world outcomes, especially by controlling the spread of undesirable traits.

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Phone: 847-467-4528
Office: Tech A322
erica.hartmann@northwestern.edu

Yuan He, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Structure and function of macromolecular machines on genes

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Office: Cook 4139
Phone: (847) 491-8526
yuanhe@northwestern.edu

Brian Hoffman, PhD

Chemistry

Catalytic mechanisms of metalloenzymes through the development and implementation of electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy

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Office: Tech NG91
Phone: (847) 491-3104
bmh@northwestern.edu

Curt Horvath, PhD

Molecular Biosciences; Microbiology – Immunology

Signal transduction and gene expression in mammalian cells

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Office: Pancoe 4401
Phone: 847-491-5530
horvath@northwestern.edu

Derk Joester, PhD

Material Science Engineering

Biomineral engineering, biological and bio-inspired minerals synthesis and processing, bioinorganic chemical applications

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Office: Cook 2087
Phone: 847-491-7443
d-joester@northwestern.edu

Julia Kalow, PhD

Chemistry

Reversibly photocontrolled polymer networks, catalyst-free reprocessable elastomers, photochemical reaction discovery for organic materials

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Office: Tech M292
Phone: 847-467-4972
jkalow@northwestern.edu

Neil Kelleher, PhD

Molecular Biosciences;
Chemistry; Medicine

Enzymology of natural product biosynthesis, mass spectrometric-based studies of the “Histone Code,” and development of Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS) for top down proteomics

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Phone: 847-467-4362
Office: Silverman Hall 3613
n-kelleher@northwestern.edu

Shana Kelley, PhD

Chemistry

Biomolecular Sensors, Rare / Single Cell Profiling, Intracellular Molecular Delivery, Biotemplated Nanomaterials

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Phone: 847-467-4176
Office: Silverman Hall 3611
shana.kelley@northwestern.edu

Hiroaki Kiyokawa, MD, PhD

Pharmacology and Pathology Cell cycle control, cellular differentiation and malignant transformation, with a focus on protein regulation by ubiquitination

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Office: Ward 9176
Phone: 312-503-0699
kiyokawa@northwestern.edu

William Klein, PhD

Neurobiology

Toxic Aβ oligomers (ADDLs): a molecular basis for the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

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Office: Hogan 5-110
Phone: 847-491-5510
wklein@northwestern.edu

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD

Neurobiology

Neuromodulation and neural circuit plasticity in the basal ganglia using chemical probes

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Office: Pancoe 2-403
Phone: 847-467-4898
yevgenia.kozorovitskiy@northwestern.edu

Carole LaBonne, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Formation, migration, and differentiation of neural crest cells

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Office: Pancoe 3411
Phone: 847-491-4165
clabonne@northwestern.edu

Joshua N. Leonard, PhD

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Engineering cellular systems and biomolecules for immunotherapy, synthetic biology, and biotechnology

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Office: Tech E244
Phone: 847-491-7455
j-leonard@northwestern.edu

Julius B. Lucks, PhD

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Unraveling the RNA sequence/structure/function code for biology, medicine and biotechnology

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Office: Tech E136
Phone: 847-467-2943
jblucks@northwestern.edu

Christian Malapit, PhD

Chemistry

Organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and electrochemistry

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Office: Ward 9176
Phone: 847-467-2629
christian.malapit@northwestern.edu

John Marko, PhD

Molecular Biosciences; Physics and Astronomy

Experimental study of protein-DNA interactions and chromosome structure, using single-molecule and biophysical micromanipulation, force-measurement and fluorescence methods. 

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Office: Pancoe 4109
Phone: 847-467-1380
john-marko@northwestern.edu

Thomas Meade, PhD

Chemistry; Molecular Biosciences; Neurobiology; Radiology

Coordination chemistry, biological molecular imaging, bio sensors

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Office: Silverman Hall 2504
Phone: 847-491-2481
tmeade@northwestern.edu

Marc Mendillo, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Systems that promote protein homeostasis and understanding how these they are co-opted and perturbed in malignancy

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Office: Simpson Querrey 7303
Phone: 312-503-5685
mendillo@northwestern.edu

Chad Mirkin, PhD

Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Medicine

Methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1-100 nm length scale, and utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools that can be used in chemical and biological sensing, therapeutics, lithography, catalysis, and optics

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Office: Ryan 3012
Phone: 847-467-7302
chadnano@northwestern.edu

Alfonso Mondragon, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids

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Office: Cook 4131
Phone: 847-491-7726
a-mondragon@northwestern.edu

 

Richard Morimoto, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Stress responses and chaperone networks and mechanisms of protein conformational disease

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Office: Hogan 2100
Phone: 847-491-3340
r-morimoto@northwestern.edu

 

Milan Mrksich, PhD

Biomedical Engineering; Chemistry

Biochemistry, self-assembled monolayers, cell adhesion, surface modification / characterization, SAMDI, mass spectrometry, high-throughput assays, biochips, drug discovery, proteomics, extracellular matrix

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Office: Tech M292
Phone: 847-467-0472
Milan.mrksich@northwestern.edu

Teri Wang Odom, PhD

Chemistry; Materials Science and Engineering

Developing novel synthetic and fabrication tools to control materials at the 100-nanometer scale and investigate their extraordinary optical properties for applications ranging from from biomedical research to next-generation optical technologies.

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Office: Tech K148
Phone: 847-491-7674
todom@northwestern.edu

 

Monica Olvera de la Cruz, PhD

Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering

Development of models to describe the self-assembly of heterogeneous molecules including amphiphiles, copolymers, and synthetic and biological polyelectrolytes, as well as the segregation and interface adsorption in multicomponent complex fluids.

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Office: Silverman 4621
Phone: 847-491-7801
m-olvera@northwestern.edu

 

Heather Pinkett, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Structure and function of ABC transporters, Molecular mechanism of membrane transport

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Office: Cook 4133
Phone: 847-467-4048
h-pinkett@northwestern.edu

Arthur Prindle, PhD

Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Focuses on understanding how molecular and cellular interactions give rise to collective behaviors in microbial communities.

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Office: Simpson Querrey Research Bldg; 302 E Huron St, Room 11-500
Phone: 650-796-1998
arthur.prindle@northwestern.edu

Ishwar Radhakrishnan, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Structural biology of eukaryotic transcription factors and their interactions with proteins and DNA; informatics of transcription factors and macromolecular complexes; structural biology of endocytic proteins and monoubiquitin signal recognition

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Office: Cook 4135
Phone: 847-467-1173
i-radhakrishnan@northwestern.edu

 

Gabriel J. Rocklin, PhD

Pharmacology

Development of high-throughput methods for protein biophysics and protein design, with a focus on protein therapeutics

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Office: Simpson Querrey Building 11-517
grocklin@northwestern.edu

 

Amy Rosenzweig, PhD

Molecular Biosciences; Chemistry

Structure and function of metalloproteins

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Office: Cook 4137
Phone: 847-467-5301
amyr@northwestern.edu

 

George Schatz, PhD

Chemistry; Chemical & Biological Engineering

Plasmonic materials, single molecule mechanical properties and DNA photophysics and mechanical properties

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Office: Ryan 4018
Phone: 847-491-5657
g-schatz@northwestern.edu

Karl Scheidt, PhD

Chemistry

Discovery of new reaction methodology and bioorganic chemistry

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Office: Silverman Hall 3611
Phone: 847-491-6659
scheidt@northwestern.edu

Evan A. Scott, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Develops immunoengineering tools that can collectively enhance our understanding of the immunological mechanisms behind vaccination and achieve rationally designed immunomodulation

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Office: Technological Institute E354
Phone: 847-467-6719
evan.scott@northwestern.edu

 

Richard Silverman, PhD

Chemistry

Investigations of the molecular mechanisms of action, rational design, and syntheses of potential medicinal agents, particularly for neurodegenerative diseases, lysosomal storage diseases, and cancer.

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Office: Silverman Hall 4603
Phone: 847-491-5653
r-silverman@northwestern.edu

 

Samuel Stupp, PhD

Materials Science and Engineering; Chemistry; Medicine

Self-assembly of nanostructures as a strategy to create materials with novel functions, ranging from improved electronic properties to enhanced biological activity

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Office: Cook 1127
Phone: 847-491-3002
s-stupp@northwestern.edu

 

Igal Szleifer, PhD

Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering; Chemistry; Medicine

Molecular modeling of biointerphases; complex molecular systems that encompass problems at the interface between biology, chemistry, physics and materials science

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Office: Silverman Hall 4629
Phone: 847-467-0674
igalsz@northwestern.edu

Regan Thomson, PhD

Chemistry

Synthesis of complex polycyclic natural products

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Office: Tech K 330
Phone: 847-467-5963
r-thomson@northwestern.edu

Danielle Tullman-Ercek, PhD

Chemical Biological Engineering

Engineering of membrane proteins and protein membranes

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Office: Silverman 3619
Phone: (847) 491-7043
Email: ercek@northwestern.edu

Keith E.J. Tyo, PhD

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Developing new types of standardized parts for manipulating cellular function in microbes

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Office: Tech E156
Phone: 847-868-0319
k-tyo@northwestern.edu

Reza Vafabakhsh, PhD

Molecular Biosciences

Acquiring quantitative mechanistic characterizations of synaptic players at different length scales to describe this complexity and towards an understanding of the molecular nature of information processing in the brain

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Office: Pancoe 4107
Phone: 847-467-0435
reza.vafabakhsh@northwestern.edu

Lu Wang, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Human Cancer Development: Understanding the Important Functions of Epigenetic Factor Mutations. Novel Cancer Treatment Options: Targeting Dys-Regulated Epigenetic Factors

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Office: Simpson Querrey 7404
Phone: 847-313-8906
lu.wang1@northwestern.edu

Xiaozhong (Alec) Wang, PhD

Department of Molecular Biosciences Regulatory mechanisms that control cell-fate decision during development in mammals. Combine genomic and genetic approaches to investigate how microRNAs and chromatin regulators influence gene expression in embryonic stem cells. How Pcdh signaling pathway regulates the survival of spinal interneurons

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Office: Pancoe 1405
Phone: 847-467-4897
awang@northwestern.edu

Bin Zhang, MD, PhD

Medicine (Hematology and Oncology); Microbiology-Immunology Designing and developing new immunotherapies and immunologic strategies for cancer treatment

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Office: Tarry 4-725
Phone: 312-503-2447
bin.zhang@northwestern.edu

Hao Zhang, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Design and development of biomedical optics: optical coherence tomography, super-resolution optical imaging, ophthalmic imaging, and single-molecular imaging

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Office: Tech M335
Phone: 847-491-2946
hfzhang@northwestern.edu

Xiaoyu Zhang, PhD

Chemistry

New drug modalities, Cancer neoantigens, E3 ubiquitin ligases, Functional proteomics

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Office: Tech L214
Phone: 847-491-4441
zhang@northwestern.edu