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The Varani Lab is located in the Department of Chemistry on the main campus of the University of Washington. The department is located in the Bagley Hall Building.
Prof. Gabriele Varani (PI) contact:
email: varani@uw.edu
Office Phone: (206) 543-7113
office location: 063C Bagley Hall
Tom Pavelitz (Lab Manager) contact:
email: pavelitz@uw.edu
Lab phone: (206) 545-2879
Lab location: 442B Bagley Hall
Shipping Address:
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
36 Bagley Hall
Seattle, WA 98195-1700
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The Varani group uses Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to study the three-dimensional structures of RNA and small molecules, peptides, and proteins binding. We aim to understand how RNA structure contributes to biochemical function, particularly in chronic diseases such as cancer, and in viral biology with the ultimate goal of designing chemical agonists that alter RNA functional biochemistry