Pioneering New Methods to Understand Protein Folding

Pioneering New Methods to Understand Protein Folding

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new technique for measuring protein folding stability on an unprecedented scale, findings detailed in a new study published in Nature. While advances in technology have helped scientists discover new protein sequences...
New Leadership in the Department of Medicine

New Leadership in the Department of Medicine

After 15 years of distinguished leadership in the Department of Medicine, Douglas E. Vaughan, MD, the Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine, has announced his intention to step down as chair of Medicine, effective September 1. Vaughan will be succeeded by Susan...
CLP undergraduate fellows bound for top graduate schools

CLP undergraduate fellows bound for top graduate schools

Three outstanding graduating seniors, Rad Chrzanowski, Alejandro Medina, and Tiger Wang, will be heading to graduate school this fall after successfully completing the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s most rigorous undergraduate educational program, the Lambert...
Supercharged protein revs up biological processes

Supercharged protein revs up biological processes

Utilizing advanced top-down proteomics approaches, Northwestern Proteomics researchers and collaborators in the Jewett Lab identified a proteoform responsible for increasing the speed of a well-known metabolic enzyme, Triosephosphate Isomerase (TPI) that drives energy...
Silverman and Odom Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Silverman and Odom Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Richard B Silverman, PhD, professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and of Pharmacology, along with two other Northwestern faculty members, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Silverman, along with Timothy Earle, PhD,...