Arnon Lavie, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. He joined UIC in 1999. 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 affects the enzymatic activity so as to achieve the desired effect.
Arnon Lavie, PhD
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Medicine
Research Program
Translational Oncology Program (TO)
Phone: 312-355-5029
Email: [email protected]
