Dr. Gochin is currently Professor of Biochemistry in the Basic Sciences Department at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine. She obtained her undergraduate degree at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, studying Mathematics and Chemistry. She completed a Master’s degree in Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Gochin’s main research focus evolved from NMR studies on methods for macromolecular structure determination to drug discovery applications. Utilizing biophysics, biochemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, computational chemistry and virology, we have directed our research towards the discovery of drugs able to effectively protect cells from infection by HIV-1, specifically targeting viral fusion.