Biological Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Bren, Kara L.
she/her/hers
- Richard S. Eisenberg Professor in Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Chemistry - Chair, Department of Chemistry
- kara.bren@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4335
- 448 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- mccamant@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3122
- B30 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
- Professor of Chemistry
- Director, Materials Science Program
- nilsson@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3053
- 417 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu | (585) 273-1404
- 419 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Cluster Affiliated Faculty
Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.
Ghaemmaghami, Sina
- Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
Professor of Biology - Director, AS&E Undergraduate Research
- sghaemma@bio.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4829
- 326A Hutchison
Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
Grossfield, Alan
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- alan_grossfield@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4193
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Mathews, David H.
- Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- david_mathews@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1734
Interests: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
Miller, Benjamin L.
- Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Professor of the Institute for Optics
- benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9805
- 5-6141A MC
Interests: Developing new strategies for the sequence-selective recognition of RNA, and using the optical properties of nanostructured materials for the production of novel biosensors
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Ebetino, Frank Hal
- Professor of Chemistry, Research
- febetino@ur.rochester.edu | (513) 532-4084
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty do not accept new graduate students and now have appointments elsewhere, although some of their students are still based at the University of Rochester.
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
- Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
- fasan@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 273-3504
- 418 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology
Emeritus Faculty
Emeritus faculty no longer teach courses or graduate students, but many are still active contributors to the intellectual life of the department, serving as co-advisors, mentors, and running research programs.
Krugh, Thomas R.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- krugh@chem.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4231
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; structural analysis of biomolecules, energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations
Turner, Douglas H.
- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Douglas.Turner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3207
- B08 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Biophysical chemistry: nucleic acid structure and function, RNA folding, therapeutics, and prediction of structure from sequence