NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Agilent Technologies and the Agilent Technologies Foundation announced today a three-year, nearly $373,000 award to Gerhard Wagner at Harvard Medical School for research into large proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
The Agilent Thought Leader Award will support Gerhard and his laboratory's research developing fast and efficient assignment methods for large proteins using high magnetic field NMR spectroscopy, and then making them accessible to the structural biology community, Agilent said.
The laboratory is affiliated with the department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS.
"NMR spectroscopy has still a tremendous potential to grow and provide unique information about important biological systems, such as large multidomain proteins, protein complexes, and membrane proteins," Wagner said in a statement. The award, he added, will be used to further innovations with the technology.
"This will provide tools for generating new insights into structures of large macromolecular complexes, understanding of biological mechanisms, and design of new drugs to fight human disease," he said.