Craig Beeson

Craig Beeson comes from Southern California where he obtained his Ph.D. in synthetic and physical organic chemistry from the University of California at Irvine. He continued his studies with postdoctoral research under the supervision of Harden McConnell at Stanford University where he studied biophysics and immunology. He started his academic career at the University of Washington in Seattle in the Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Immunology. He was recruited to the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2002 where he remains today. The focus of his research is in the areas of structure-based drug design, analyses of signaling networks, and the regulation of cellular energy metabolism. He is the director of the MUSC Metabolomics Core and the MUSC Drug Design and Synthesis Core.