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Olgun Guvench

Olgun Guvench, M.D., Ph.D.

he/him/his
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration

Location

Pharmacy Building, Rm 322
Portland Campus for the Health Sciences
Eligible for Student Opportunities

Olgun Guvench teaches foundational and applied sciences to Pharm.D. students and pursues research in the field of biomolecular simulation, with focuses on: cytochrome P450s (CYPs); proteoglycans; and protein-carbohydrate interactions. Before joining 成人直播, Dr. Guvench was a National Institutes of Health Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, where he trained in biomolecular simulation and structure-based discovery/design, including developing new atomic-resolution models for simulating carbohydrates.

Credentials

Education

Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
2005
M.D.
Columbia University
2001
B.A.
Harvard University
1997

Post-Doctoral Training

National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32)
University of Maryland

Research

Selected publications

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Research interests

-Structure-based modeling of cytochrome P450 (CYP) metabolism and inhibition
-Molecular modeling of proteoglycans
-Protein-carbohydrate interactions in molecular recognition and signaling