Faculty and Research

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Understanding the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and developing strategies to avoid resistance

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Understanding how Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crystal (Cry) proteins can be used to cure STHs like hookworms, whipworms, and giant roundworms.

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Investigating Drug Resistance in Oncogenes Using Protein Fitness Landscapes

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Understanding computational systems biology and microbial ecology involving genomics and metagenomics.

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Defining Replication Stress and Therapy Response Outcomes Regulated by the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Pathway

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Stress Signaling and Cancer

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Dr. Ellison's clinical research interests focus on the broad areas of identification and treatment of nosocomial infections, infections in the ICU setting, sepsis, and clinical care of patients with HIV disease.

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Translational Research in Leukemia

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Preventing the transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms within the hospital setting and understanding how to implement novel treatment guidelines to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage.

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Structural Studies of DNA Replication and Repair Proteins Involved in Cancer

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Expanding our fundamental knowledge of this molecular machine to aid in the development of new drugs that target ribosomes.

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Cancer Systems Pharmacology

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Elucidating Mechanisms of Tumor Initiation and Progression

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Understanding viral replication, pathogenesis, and immunity.

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Microbial-Based Cancer Therapy

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Tumor-Microbiome Interactions and Their Effects on Disease Progression and Treatment Success

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Understanding and characterizing mechanisms of immune homeostasis in intestinal epithelial cells.

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Structural Analysis of Clinically Important Proteins

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Defining the field of drug resistance and developing framework to avoid drug resistance from the very initial design phase

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Understanding how compounds secreted by microbes affect the physiology, metabolism, and survival of their microbial neighbors, and how such interactions influence the stability and dynamics of complex microbial communities.

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Translational Therapeutics for Neuroblastoma and Other Aggressive Pediatric Solid Tumors

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Drug Resistance

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Understanding the use of chronic prescription medication by older adults, particularly in nursing home residents with advanced dementia and near the end-of-life.

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Drug resistance in viral proteases: Understanding the molecular basis of drug resistance in viral proteases, including HIV-1 and HCV protease