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Arnon Lavie, PhD
Translational Oncology Research Program
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
College of Medicine
Email: lavie@uic.edu
Arnon Lavie, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He is a structural biologist with documented success in modifying the substrate specificity of medically relevant enzymes. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, holds multiple patents and has licensed several of his discoveries. The focus of his laboratory, Enzyme by Design, is to provide safer cancer therapeutics. Their expertise is to closely analyze the 3-dimensional structure of proteins, enzymes in particular, and through careful, rational structure-based design, introduce minor mutations at the amino acid level that affect the enzymatic activity so as to achieve the desired effect.
Education
- PhD, Brandeis University
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Research Focus
- Translational Oncology
- Biologics
- Enzyme Engineering
- Structural Biology
- Leukemia