Agilent Technologies supports Professor's work developing transformative NMR applications for structural biology

摘要

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Dr. Hashim M. Al-Hashimi at the University of Michigan has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award. The award supports his work in developing advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy methods tocharacterize the form of DNA known as Hoogsteen base pairs, a work that could dramatically alter the way DNA structure is understood. The award will support Dr. Al-Hashimi and his team in their efforts to develop robust and efficient methods for characterizing the unusual structure and biological functions of Hoogsteen base pairs in DNA and DNA-protein complexes. The methods developed through this project will be made widely accessible to the biophysics and structural biology communities via scientificpublication and other channels. Dr. Al-Hashimi and his team believe their work could lead to significant advances in DNA-targeted drug discovery and other applications.