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Meet our faculty
The Chemical Biology graduate program at McMaster includes 40 participating faculty members from three Faculties (Sciences, Engineering, and Health Sciences) across seven departments (Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Biology, Pathology, and Molecular Medicine, Medicine, Chemical Engineering, Physics, and Astronomy). Several of these investigators are nationally and internationally recognized research leaders (12 prestigious Canada Research Chair holders) as well as emerging researchers.​
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Paul Ayers, Ph.D. (UNC-Chapel Hill)
e-mail: ayers@mcmaster.ca
Density functional theory; computational modelling of enzymes
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Sara Andres, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: andressn@mcmaster.ca
DNA Damage Response and Repair, Drug Resistance Infections
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Paul J. Berti, Ph.D. (McGill)
e-mail: berti@mcmaster.ca
Microbiological Biochemistry and Antimicrobial Research
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Rusell Bishop, Ph.D. (Alberta)
e-mail: bishopr@mcmaster.ca
Biogenesis of the Gram-negative Cell Envelope
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Dawn Bowdish, Ph.D. (UBC)
e-mail: bowdish@mcmaster.ca
Role of the Macrophage Scavenger Receptors in Host Defence
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John D. Brennan, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: brennanj@mcmaster.ca
Bioanalytical Chemistry and High Throughoput Screening
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Katherine Bujold, Ph.D. (McGill)
e-mail: bujoldk@mcmaster.ca
Synthesis of oligonucleotides with modified backbones
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Philip Britz-Mckibbin, Ph.D. (UBC)
e-mail: britz@mcmaster.ca
Bioanalytical Chemistry; separation science; metabolomics; cellulomics
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Eric Brown, Ph.D. (Guelph)
e-mail: ebrown@mcmaster.ca
Microbiological Biochemistry and Antimicrobiological research
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Fred Capretta, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: capretta@mcmaster.ca
Organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry, parallel synthesis.
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Brian Coombes, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: coombes@mcmaster.ca
Microbiology Biochemistry and Antimicrobial Research. Cell Biology and Gene Regulation
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Marie Elliot, Ph.D. (Alberta)
e-mail: melliot@mcmaster.ca
Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, Microbiology & Plant Biology
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Carlos Filipe, Ph.D. (Clemson University)
e-mail: filipec@mcmaster.ca
Applied Molecular biology, protein expression and purification, mRNA enginnering
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Turlough Finan, Ph.D. (Guelph)
e-mail: finan@mcmaster.ca
Molecular genetic studies on symbiotic N2 fixation and phosphate metabolism.
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Cecile Fradin, Ph.D. (Univ.Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France )
e-mail: fradin@physics.mcmaster.ca
Molecular Biophysics
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Paul H.M. Harrison, Ph.D. (Alberta)
e-mail: pharriso@mcmaster.ca
M.C.I.C. Bioorganic chemistry; biosynthetic processes; biomimetics
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Adam Hitchcock, Ph.D. (UBC)
e-mail: aph@mcmaster.ca
F.C.I.C. Electron impact and synchrotron spectroscopic; X-ray microscopy of proteins
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Yingfu Li, Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)
e-mail: liying@mcmaster.ca
Structural Biology and Protein/Nucleic Acid Structure/ Protein
Yu Lu, Ph.D. (U of Washington)
e-mail: yu.lu@mcmaster.ca
Proteomics, Protein/ Nucleic Acid interactions and Stem cell biology
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Nathan A. Magarvey, Ph.D. (Minnesota)
e-mail: magarv@mcmaster.ca
Natural products chemical biology and drug discovery
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Jake Magolan, Ph.D. (Western)
e-mail: magolanj@mcmaster.ca
Medicinal chemistry, organic synthetic methods, natural products synthesis
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Andrew McArthur, Ph.D. (Victoria)
e-mail: mccarthua@mcmaster.ca
Bioinformatics, functional genomics, and computational biology
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James McNulty, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: jmcnult@mcmaster.ca
Synthesis; organophosphine chemistry; anticancer drugs; natural product isolation
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Giuseppe Melacini, Ph.D. (U. of San diego)
e-mail: melacin@mcmaster.ca
Biological NMR, protein structure & dynamics, biomolecular interactions, structural genomics
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Jose M. Moran-Mirabal, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: mirabj@mcmaster.ca
High-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy, Micro and Nanofabrication
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Ishac Nazy, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: nazii@mcmaster.ca
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, Immune thrombocytopenia, Platelet disorders
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Robert Pelton Ph.D. (Bristol University)
e-mail: peltonrh@mcmaster.ca
Polymer colloids, water-soluble polymers, interfacial engineering, flocculation, and latex's
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Anthony Rullo, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: rulloa@mcmaster.ca
Chemical Immunomodulatory approaches to fight cancer, metastatic cell targeting oligomers, etc
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Heather Sheardown, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: sheardow@mcmaster.ca
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, mathematical modeling of physiologic processes, etc
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Saman Saedghi, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: sadegs10@mcmaster.ca
Radiochemistry, radiopharmaceutical development, and validation, electrochemistry, microfluidics and instrumentation.
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Jennifer Sterns, Ph.D. (Waterloo)
e-mail: stearns@mcmaster.ca
Bioinformatics, 16S rRNA gene surveys, colonization, infant gut, microbial ecology, etc
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John F. Valliant, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: valliant@mcmaster.ca
Medicinal inorganic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry
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Geoff Werstuck Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: gwerstuck@thrombosis.hhscr.org
Diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular disease
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John Whitney, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: jwhitney@mcmaster.ca
Microbial warfare, Bacterial toxins, and Protein X-Ray crystallography
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Gerard Wright, Ph.D. (Waterloo)
e-mail: wrightge@mcmaster.ca
Microbiological Biochemistry and Antimicrobial Research
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Jianping Xu, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: jpxu@mcmaster.ca
Ecology & Evolution, Microbiology & Plant Biology
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