Bioinorganic Chemistry

BIOGRAPHY

Research Interests
Research in Professor Marletta's rsearch group is focused on structure/function relationships in proteins with a particular emphasis on the catalytic and biological properties of enzymes and signaling proteins. Current emphasis is on nitric oxide signaling (including studies on nitric oxide synthase, guanylate cyclase and S-nitrosation mechanisms), oxygen sensing, pathogen responses to nitric oxide, and enzymology of biofuel utilization.

Biography
Professor. Born 1951; A.B. State University College, Fredonia, NY (1973); Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco (1978); NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, M.I.T. (1978-80); Assistant/Associate Professor, M.I.T. (1980-87); Associate Professor, University of Michigan (1987-91); Professor, University of Michigan (1991-01); John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan (1991-01), Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997-01); Miller Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley (2000); Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley (2001-present); George H. Hitchings Award for Innovative Methods in Drug Discovery & Design (1991); Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan (1992); Outstanding Achievement Award, State University of New York College at Fredonia (1993); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1995); State University of New York, Alumni Honor Roll (1996); Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan (1996); Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award in Biomedical Research University of Michigan Medical School (2000); State of Michigan Scientist of the Year (2000); Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan (2000); Member, Institute of Medicine; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Member, National Academy of Sciences; American Chemical Society's Repligen Award in Chemistry of Biological Processes (2007); Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest (2007); Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, sponsored by the Protein Society (2007).