Alex Taylor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Research
Director, Protein Biochemistry Facility, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute
Associate Director, Structural Biology Core Facilities, Institutional Research Core
Co-investigator, Drug Discovery and Structural Biology Shared Resource, Mays Cancer Center
As Associate Director in the Structural Biology Core Facilites, my role in team science focuses on using X-ray crystallography and cryo electron microscopy for detailed 3-D analyses of biological macromolecules that impact human health. My expertise includes biochemistry and structural biology that began with my training as a Ph.D. student in Prof. Marvin Hackert’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin and collaboration with Prof. Chris Whitman, followed by postdoctoral training in 1988 Nobel Laureate Prof. Johann Deisenhofer’s lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. I study the structure and function of protein targets in multiple areas such as cancer biology, infectious disease, innate immunity, virology, metabolism and structure-guided drug design.