Category: Soranno

A multipronged investigation of SARS-CoV-2 genome packaging

April 22nd, 2022 – Andrea Soranno, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics along with Kathleen Hall, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Alex Holehouse, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics have received a new five-year grant from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for their research entitled “A multipronged investigation of SARS-CoV-2 genome packaging”

ApoE isoform-specific structure: insights on biology and pathobiology

August 17th, 2021 – Andrea Soranno, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Carl Frieden, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Rui Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics will collaborate in the Project named “ApoE isoform-specific structure: insights on biology and pathobiology”. The Project is part of the newly awarded five-year U19 Research Program from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Aging, entitled “Biology and pathobiology of apoE in aging and Alzheimer’s disease”, helmed by Dr. David Holtzman, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Washington University, in St Louis, and Dr. Guojun Bu, Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic.

Identifying Neurotoxic Conformers in the Structural Ensemble of apoE

October 19th, 2018 – Andrea Soranno, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics received a New Investigator Award in Alzheimer’s Disease from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), Inc. for his work entitled “Identifying Neurotoxic Conformers in the Structural Ensemble of apoE”.