Emily A. Smith

Emily A. Smith's research focuses on discovering and chemically studying natural products—chemical compounds derived from marine organisms (sponges, corals), fungi, and other microbes—to find new inhibitors of enzymes involved in cancer-related cell signaling, such as protein kinases and ubiquitin ligases. This work combines natural product chemistry, organic synthesis, and biochemical/cell-based testing to evaluate how these compounds might affect cancer cell growth, including cholangiocarcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, and adrenocortical carcinoma. Students in this area would likely engage in isolating and characterizing new chemical compounds and testing their biological activity against disease-relevant protein targets.

Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, with year-to-year fluctuations but a consistent average of roughly 3 papers per year in the most recent five-year period.

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