2011 News
Drs. Jim Janetka and Scott Hultgren are featured in “The Record” for their research on chronic urinary infections. Their article “Treatment and Prevention of Urinary Tract Infection with Orally Active FimH Inhibitors” appears in the November 16th issue of Science Translational Medicine. Also featured in the November 18th issue of Voice of America and in the December 5th edition of C&EN.
John A. Cooper, MD, PhD, has been named interim head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The figure of Drs. Scott Wildman and Garland Marshall is on the cover of the October issue of Chemical Biology and Drug Design. Their research article is entitled “Drug-like Leads for Steric Discrimination between Substrate and Inhibitors of Human Acetylcholinesterase”
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Dr. Ackers was a professor in our department from 1989 to 2007, serving as department head from 1989 to 1996. His leadership was instrumental in bringing molecular biophysics to the mission of our department. A description of his life and career, along with some remembrances from his colleagues, can be found here – Life and Career. A description of the research in his laboratory and a list of his publications can be found here – Research.
Dr. Weikai Li joined the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the beginning of January as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Li’s lab combines membrane protein crystallography with functional studies. The lab focuses on membrane embedded enzymes that couple blood coagulation with oxidative folding of nascent proteins.