Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 30

Alanna Schepartz named Harris Professor

Alanna Schepartz has been named the Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry by a vote of the Yale Corporation.

Schepartz's research is in the area of chemical biology, a field that bridges organic chemistry and molecular biology. Her research group is constructing molecules that probe the relationship between structure and function in nucleic acids and
proteins.

Schepartz's current interests include defining chemical solutions to the problems of protein-protein recognition and protein- DNA recognition. Her work may have applications in designing medications that target and interlock with specific large molecules to block their ability to cause diseases or to characterize and quantify macromolecules relevant to human disease.

"Chemical biology is a field of intense and growing scientific interest because of its ability to provide fundamental information about the molecular basis of biological processes as well as its ability to provide tools and reagents of use in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries," she says.

Schepartz earned a B.S. in chemistry from the State University of New York in Albany and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Columbia University, where she received an Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Pegram Award for Graduate Research. After completing postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the Yale chemistry department in 1988. She was named the Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry in 1994.

In 1991, the National Science Foundation selected Schepartz to receive a Presidential Young Investigator Award in support of her work at Yale. Her other honors include a Morse Faculty Fellowship, a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship Award and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. She also was named an Eli Lilly Biochemistry Fellow.

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