| Participating Faculty
Jonathan S. Dordick (Program Co-Director)
Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor of Biology
Dr. Dordick’s research areas are biocatalysis in nonaqueous media, combinatorial biocatalysis, protein-containing nanostructures, metabolic pathway engineering, and biomaterials.
Marlene Belfort (Program Co-Director)
Director, Div. of Genetic Disorders, Wadsworth Center
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Belfort’s research interests are in splicing, mobility and evolution of self-splicing introns, and their application to biotechnology and medicine.
Yvonne Akpalu
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Akpalu’s research focuses on characterizing macromolecular structure, aggregation and dynamics by integrated light, x-ray neutron scattering and spectroscopy. Materials of current interest are macromolecules and composites with applications in coatings, renewable energy and in medicine.
Georges Belfort
Russell Sage Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Belfort was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. Dr. Belfort’s research focuses on membrane filtration, affinity separations, transport phenomena, biocolloids and surfaces phenomena, self-assembly and surface modification.
Curt Breneman
Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Breneman’s research focuses on computational chemistry, RECON/TAE transferable atom equivalent (TAE) modeling, and machine learning in virtual high-throughput molecular property screening.
Wilfredo Colón
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Colón’s research focuses on molecular recognition in protein oligomerization and aggregation, protein folding, biophysical mechanism of amyloid formation, and protein folding defects in human diseases.
Steven Cramer
Professor and Acting Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Cramer’s research focuses on multiscale modeling of protein chromatography, displacement chromatography, chromatographic chip systems, and proteomics.
Joan M. Curcio
Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, SUNY
Dr. Curcio’s research focuses on retrotransposons and genome organization.
Natacha DePaola
Professor and Acting Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. DePaola’s research focuses on hemodynamic regulation of vascular cell function in early atherosclerosis, gap junctional intercellular communication, and biophysical regulation of mammalian cell function with applications to vascular and bone tissue engineering.
Xinxin Ding
Professor, Molecular Genetics and Toxicology, SUNY
Dr. Ding’s research focuses on molecular toxicology, gene regulation and pharmacogenetics, and genomics.
Shekhar Garde
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Garde’s research interests include molecular thermodynamics and simulations of biological systems, statistical mechanics of liquids and polymers, and solvation phenomena — especially in aqueous solutions (water structure, hydrophobic interactions).
Ravi Kane
Merck Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Kane’s research focuses on nanoscale architectures and therapeutics, patterned cell growth, and the molecular engineering of biosurfaces.
Jane Koretz
Professor, Biology Department
Dr. Koretz’s research is directed primarily toward characterization of human crystalline lens development and aging.
David A. Lawrence
Professor, Biomedical Science and Environmental Health Toxicology, SUNY
Dr. Lawrence’s research focuses on immunotox and neuroimmunotox.
Robert Linhardt
Senior Constellation Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Acting Director, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Linhardt’s research focuses on glycobiology, glycomics, chemoenzymatic synthesis, microanalysis and high-throughput screening.
Robert Palazzo
Professor of Biology and Acting Provost
Dr. Palazzo's research focuses on the the cellular and molecular biology of the centrosome.
Julie Stenken
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Stenken’s research focuses on bioanalytical chemistry, biomaterial biocompatibility, microdialysis sampling and in vivo analytical methods of small molecules and proteins.
Deepak Vashishth
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Vashishth’s research interests include biology and mechanics of hard tissue especially posttranslational modification of collagen cellular control of tissue growth and development, regneration, and fatigue fractures of long bones.
Mark Wentland
Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Wentland’s research focuses on the design and synthesis of novel agents to treat cocaine addition in humans.
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