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Our major goals are to make discoveries that provide new knowledge regarding the mechanisms that drive cellular systems and to move these findings from the bench to the bedside. Our second and equally important goal is to educate the next generation of highly-trained and capable scientists and physician investigators.<br /><br />Using state-of-the-art biochemical, molecular and cellular approaches, our distinguished faculty are investigating protein structure and how this influences function, signal transduction mechanisms, apoptosis regulators, cancer biology, tumor suppressors, and DNA repair processes, muscle contractile mechanisms, and fluorescent measurement.<br /><br />This effort includes the use of high-tech instrumentation including nuclear magnetic resonance, fluorescence spectroscopy, crystallography, proteomics/mass spectrometry and fluorescent cell imaging. 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