Kenneth Minneman, Ph.D.
  Professor  
   
     
      Emory University School of Medicine  
      5086 Rollins Research Center  
      1510 Clifton Road  
      Atlanta, GA 30322-3090  
      Tel: 404-727-5985  
      Tel: 404-727-0363 (Lab)  
      Fax: 404-727-0365  
      kminneman@pharm.emory.edu  
         
      Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1977  
      Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Medical Center, 1977-80  
        Emory University, 1980  
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My goal is to be an internationally recognized authority on the pharmacology and signaling of mammalian G protein coupled receptors, because of outstanding research and teaching. Our current interests are in the complexing of G protein coupled receptors with other proteins, including oligomerization with other G protein coupled receptors, interactions with signaling proteins other than G proteins, and interactions with scaffolding proteins important in maintaining spatial localization and in bridging interactions with other important cellular proteins. We are interested in whether association with such a multitude of other proteins alters the pharmacological or signaling properties of these receptors, creating in effect “new receptors” that are defined by associations between proteins rather than the properties of individual proteins.