Research in the Division of Chemical & Systems Biology includes the following focus areas:

• Sturrock lab - Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) structure activity relationships and development of ACE inhibitors (drug design) for treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction and renal disease

• Blackburn lab - Application of functional proteomics for diagnostics, drug and vaccine development for infectious disease and cancers
• Stefan Barth - Research uses medical biotechnology such as antibody selection technology and protein engineering and expression to develop knowledge-based recombinant immunodiagnostics and therapeutics
• Luiz Zerbini - Regulation of gene expression by transcription factors, role of receptor tyrosine kinases in cancer malignancies, aberrant gene expression in carcinogenesis, alterations in signal transduction pathways and gene translocations
• Musa Mhlanga - Gene Expression & Biophysics