Department of Biochemistry

Standing Faculty

Edward J. Macarak, PhD
Dr. Macarak is Interim Chair of Biochemistry.

Sherrill Adams, MS, PhD
Dr. Adams is Professor of Biochemistry. The overall goal of her research is to define the molecular mechanisms that regulate skeletal development. Her primary teaching responsibility is in the Biochemistry 501 course for first-year dental students, where she is course director and lectures on transcriptional control mechanisms, extracellular matrix, and cell-matrix interactions. She is also chair-elect of the University Faculty Senate.

Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, PhD
Dr. Boesze-Battaglia is Associate Professor of Biochemistry. Her research interests, supported by the Zeigler Foundation and the National Eye Institute, include the role of tetraspanins in degenerative disease as well as lipid domains in cellular function. Dr. Battaglia earned her PhD in Biochemistry in 1990 from the State University of New York.

Ellis E. Golub, PhD
Dr. Golub is Professor of Biochemistry. His laboratory is primarily involved in two research areas: calcification of hard tissues and computer applications in biochemistry and molecular biology. He has been involved in the development of computer programs for prediction and graphical display of protein secondary structure from sequence. In the calcification area, the focus is on the role of the Matrix Vesicles and the enzyme, alakaline phosphotase, in initiating mineral formation in cartilage and bone. His teaching activities include the biochemistry courses for first-year dental students, and lectures to post-doctoral dental students.

Claude Krummenacher, PhD
Dr. Krummenacher is Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. His research interests involve the functions and structures of adhesion molecules and their roles in cell-cell junctions and in virus-cell interactions. Two areas of research are explored: 1) the role of adhesion molecules as receptors for entry and spread of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and 2) their roles in cellular junctions during craniofacial development. Dr. Krummenacher teaches in the biochemistry course for first-year dental students and directs the advanced virology course for cell and molecular biology graduate students.

Academic Support Staff/Associated Faculty

William Abrams, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Donald Demuth, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Eileen Jaffe, PhD, Adjunct Professor
William Joel Landis, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Phoebe Leboy, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Daniel Malamud, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Julian Marsh, MD, MS, Adjunct Professor
Joseph Rabinowitz, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Sevgi Rodan, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Irving M. Shapiro, BDS, LDS, MS, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Department of Biochemistry
Robert Schattner Center
University of Pennsylvania
School of Dental Medicine
240 South 40th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6030
215-898-8936

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