Congratulations to Brent Scott being awarded the 2024 BMB Postdoctoral Research Discovery and Innovation Award!

Dr. Brent Scott is a second-year postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Greenberg and is currently funded by the Pediatric Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease Training Program. Dr. Scott received his B.S. in Exercise Science with a minor in Sports Medicine from Belmont University (Nashville, TN) and was a research assistant for Dr. Ted Towse in the Neuromuscular Physiology Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He then received both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst working in the Muscle Biophysics Laboratory of Dr. Ned Debold where he studied the basis of energy transduction by myosin and the molecular mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle fatigue. Now as a postdoc at WashU working with Dr. Greenberg, Dr. Scott uses single molecule optical trapping techniques and solution kinetics to study the processes underlying molecular power generation by the heart in attempts to characterize the dysfunction that occurs with various forms of heart disease and heart failure. In his most recent project working with the lab, they have deciphered the previously unknown molecular mechanism of action of a recently developed pharmaceutical that directly targets cardiac myosin for the treatment of heart failure.