COBRE Members

Principal Investigator

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc
Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
John C. West Chair in Cancer Research

Investigators

Lalima G. Ahuja, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Protein-Phosphorylation based Signaling

Peggi Angel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Systems-based analysis of redox activity in aortic valve stenosis

Gavin Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Targeting Cancer Stem Cells for Breast Cancer Treatment

Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Targeting CDK6 for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) therapy

Pilot Projects

Kyu-Ho Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
The novel iron sulfur-targeting protein Ccdc117 plays a regulatory role in bioenergetics metabolism

Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
Factors that shape T cell immune response

Core Directors

Danyelle Townsend, Ph.D.
Director
Analytical Redox Biology Core

John Lemasters, Ph.D.
Director
Cell and Molecular Imaging Core

Lauren Ball, Ph.D.
Director
Proteomics CorePilot Projects

Mentors

Richard R. Drake, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Scott T. Eblen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Anand Mehta, DPhil
Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc
Chair & Professor
Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
John C. West Chair in Cancer Research

Danyelle Townsend, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences

Administrative Staff

Deza Finn
Administrative Manager

Niki Turner
Administrative Coordinator

Andrew King
Fiscal Technician

Caitlin Myers Hernandez
Grants Coordinator

Graduates

Eduardo Maldonado, DVM, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences
Awarded RO1: VDAC Opening Small Molecules to Revert Warburg Metabolism and Induce Oxidative Stress

Danyelle Townsend, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences 

COBRE Internal Advisory Board

Kathleen T. Brady, M.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor
Associate Dean for Clinical Research

Alan Diehl, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Endowed Chair Lipidomics & Pathology

Phil Howe, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Endowed Chair for Clinical Oncology

Keith Kirkwood, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean of Research
College of Dental Medicine

Igor Roninson, Ph.D.
Professor
SCCP Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences -USC Campus

COBRE External Advisory Board

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc
Medical University of South Carolina

Franklin G. Berger, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina

Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D.
The University of Vermont

Dean P. Jones, Ph.D.
Emory University of Medicine

Garth Powis, D. Phil
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute