Kadir A. Ozcan

Kadir A. Ozcan's work focuses on molecular structures relevant to disease, including how DNA folds into unusual shapes (G-quadruplexes) linked to a gene mutation associated with neurodegenerative disorders like ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and how a human protein called BST-2 physically restrains viruses like HIV from budding out of infected cells. The research combines structural biology and biophysics methods to understand disease mechanisms at the molecular level. This work could interest students curious about the physical chemistry of DNA and proteins as it relates to neurological disease and viral infection.

Publication output has been modest and irregular over the past decade, with occasional gaps followed by a slight increase in recent years (2022-2024).

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