Category: Zhang

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.

Structural and functional studies of axonemal microtubule inner proteins (MIPs)

July 10th, 2020 – Rui Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics received a new five year grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research entitled “Structural and functional studies of axonemal microtubule inner proteins (MIPs)”.

Terminal coupling enabled structure determination of human membrane proteins at atomic resolution

December 27th, 2018 – Weikai Li, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, along with Rui Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics received a new three year, grant award from the W. M. Keck foundation for their research entitled “Terminal coupling enabled structure determination of human membrane proteins at atomic resolution”.