Mar 15, 2024 | Frontpage, Impact, News, Translation
As is the case with many other diseases, a protein is thought to be a key driver of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Thanks to a two-year $700,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), researchers in Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life...
Mar 13, 2024 | Frontpage, News
Ananya Basu, a third-year PhD student, is using innovative approaches to overcome previously intractable targets in the Zhang Lab. Appointed to the CLP Predoctoral Training Program, she is being co-mentored by Zhang (chemistry) and Horvath (molecular biosciences)....
Mar 5, 2024 | Frontpage, News
Neil Kelleher, Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Medicine at Northwestern University, will present his groundbreaking work and insights at US HUPO 2024 in Portland, Oregon next week as the 2024 recipient of the Donald...
Feb 6, 2024 | Frontpage, News
POSTED BY: WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES JANUARY 29, 2024 Battling Alzheimer’s disease has become William Klein’s life work – even if he never saw it coming. A progressive disease impacting memory, thinking, behavior, and other mental functions, Alzheimer’s...
Feb 5, 2024 | Frontpage, News
Human cells contain crowds of protein variants, but, especially in a time of funding challenges, chasing these proteoforms takes dogged persistence. Biology delivers a massive number of puzzles to proteoform hunters1,2. Proteoforms are the droves of protein variants...