Titles and Roles
- Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
- Research Program
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Biography
Melissa Lambeth Kemp, PhD, is the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech School of Engineering and Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Kemp is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Education
Dr. Kemp earned her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2003. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Biological Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
Research
Dr. Kemp’s research develops computational systems biology models to investigate properties of cancer metabolism, redox signaling, and the role of oxidative stress in patient-specific responses to chemotherapeutics.
Publications
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Awards
Dr. Kemp received the New Innovator Award from the NIH in 2009 after her lab published a landmark computational model of hydrogen peroxide consumption in cells which helped explain the apparent independence of thioredoxin and glutathione oxidation dynamics within the cytosol.