Current Research Focus

My long term research commitment is the area of DNA replication, and cellular proliferation. Most recently my expertise in this area led to a collaborative arrangement between the Upjohn Company and me. I will help them develop a means to assay potential anti-viral agents. This has and will involve cloning, and purifying Herpes Simplex Virus DNA replication proteins that have been over-expressed using a baculovirus system. The preliminary investigation from this, and other data suggest that one of the problems in developing specific anti-viral agents may stem from similar protein mechanisms used by viruses and mitochondria.
 
 
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