Robert Powers

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD

EDUCATION:
• 1984 BA Chemistry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• 1989 PhD Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 1990-1993 Post Doc Protein NMR, NIH-NIDDK, Bethesda, MD

HONORS, AWARDS, AFFILIATIONS:
• 1986- American Chemical Society
• 1986 Phi Lambda Upsilon (National Chemistry Honor Society)
• 1986-1987 Secretary of PLU NU Chapter
• 1990-1993 National Institutes of Health IRTA Fellowship
• 1996- New York Academy of Sciences
• 1998 Wyeth Team Work Award
• 2000 Wyeth Team of the Year Award, Team Co-leader
• 2003- American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2005- Nebraska Academy of Science
• 2008- Redox Biology Center
• 2010- Cancer Genes and Molecular Regulation Program
• 2008- Editorial Advisory Board Member, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening
• 2008-2010 Advisory Committee, Functional Genomics Consortium at Kansas State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The availability of the Human Genome is providing an unprecedented opportunity to expand our understanding of cell biology, development, evolution and physiology with tremendous potential benefits to human health issues and drug discovery. Capitalizing on this opportunity requires a concerted effort to identify the functional and therapeutic roles of the vast number of novel proteins being identified by genome sequencing. My research interest is focused on developing technologies that use bioinformatics, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, metabolomics, molecular modeling and structural biology to assign a biological function to novel proteins. Determining protein structures by NMR and deciphering their biological function provides a starting point for a structure-based drug discovery effort.

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