Overview
Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA)
Despite the development of new structural techniques such as Cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography remains the dominant method used in all structural biology. However, the rate of X-ray discovery is limited by long queues and maintenance downtime of synchrotron radiation sources, which are enormous federally run facilities. A new type of home radiation source called MetalJetnow allows data to be collected locally on campus, dramatically expediting and expanding the entire structural biology enterprise. By supporting a rental of this equipment, Vanderbilt has the opportunity to swiftly take the lead in the previously impossible structural biology and academic structure-based drug design. An on-site device will expedite the university’s rate of discovery and provide a unique educational experience for Vanderbilt students.
Faculty Participants
Lead Faculty in bold
School of Medicine (Clinical)
- Raymond Blind, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- James Crowe, Professor of Pediatrics
- Borden Lacy, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
College of Arts & Science
- Lauren Buchanan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Brandt Eichman, Professor of Biological Sciences
- Richard Haglund, Professor of Physics
- Janet Macdonald, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
School of Medicine (Basic Science)
- Walter Chazin, Professor of Biochemistry
- Stephen Fesik, Professor of Biochemistry
- Tina Iverson, Professor of Pharmacology