Pattenden Lab
Pattenden Lab
The Pattenden lab develops innovative techniques in chromatin-based therapeutic target discovery and cancer diagnostics. Our research program enables the discovery of novel molecular targets, pathways, and mechanisms. Our central strategy exploits tumor-specific changes in chromatin accessibility, a universal feature that is directly linked with transcriptional activation, DNA damage repair, replication, RNA processing, and nuclear organization.
Samantha Pattenden, PhD
Associate Professor, Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
Director of Applied Epigenetic Screening Technologies
Christian Cook
Undergraduate Student
cookcr@email.unc.edu
Merrill Froney
Graduate Student
froneym@live.unc.edu
Lauren Sweeney
Undergraduate Student
sweeneyl@email.unc.edu
Marjan Mahrab-Mohseni
Research Technician
mohseni@email.unc.edu
Michelle Thomas
Graduate Student
denisem@emais.unc.edu