Hardy named Cottrell Scholar
Jeanne Hardy, assistant professor of Chemistry, has been named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation, an Arizona-based foundation for the advancement of science.
The honor, which includes an award of $100,000, will support Hardy’s research proposal, “Controlling Protein Function with Designed Allosteric Switches.” The project involves the construction of biochemical devices known as allosteric switches that turn the functions of proteins on and off. The switches reshape the allosteric sites in proteins, allowing molecules to bind – a process that drugs use to shut off a function related to a disease.
In her study, Hardy and her lab team will focus on enzymes called phosphatases. The research will develop chemical switches for about 100 different members of the phosphatase family to assess their possible roles in disease.
Chemist Frederick Gardner Cottrell founded and endowed the Research Corporation in 1912 with the patent rights to his invention, the Cottrell electrostatic precipitator.
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June 5, 2008.
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