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Melissa Lambeth Kemp Melissa Lambeth Kemp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar

Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0535

Phone:404-385-6341
Fax:404-894-4243
Location:GT: IBB 1314
E-Mail: melissa.kemp@bme.gatech.edu
URL: http://kemp.openwetware.org/

Areas of Research

    Systems biology in the context of cancer immunology, computational modeling of intracellular metabolic and signaling pathways

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2006
  • Ph.D., University of Washington, 2003
  • B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Selected Awards

  • 2009, NIH Director's New Innovator Award
  • 2008, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
  • 2004, CSBi-Merck Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 1998-2003, Whitaker Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Selected Research Publications

  • Kemp, M.L., Go, Y.M., Jones, D.P. “Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of thiol/disulfide redox systems: A perspective on redox systems biology”. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, v. 44 (6), p.921-37, 2008.
  • Wille, L., Kemp, M.L., Sandy, P., Lewis, C.L., Lauffenburger, D.A. “Epi-allelic ERK1 and 2 Knockdown Series Shows Isoform Equivalence of T Cell ERK Regulation and IL-2 Production”. Molecular Immunology, 2007.
  • *Kemp, M.L., *Wille, L., Lewis, C.L., Nicholson, L., Lauffenburger, D.A. “Network Signal Combinations Downstream of T Cell Receptor Activation Predict IL-2 Response”. Journal of Immunology, 2007.
  • *Vinnakota, K., *Kemp, M.L., Kushmerick, M.J. “Dynamics of Muscle Glycogenolysis Modeled with pH Time Course Computation and pH-Dependent Reaction Equilibria and Enzyme Kinetics”. Biophysical Journal v.91 (4), p.1264-87, 2006.

    * authors contributed equally to work


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