Axelbaum

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Axelbaum is the Director of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. He also heads the Laboratory for Advanced Combustion and Energy Research and has directed the Engineering section of the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium at Washington University in St. Louis since 1997. He served as the associate ...

William Buhro

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William H. Buhro, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and associate director of the Center for Materials Innovation, specializes in nanotechnology. He and his group are engaged in synthesis on the nanometer-scale. They design reactions and mechanisms for the growth of inorganic crystals having dimensions ...

Frieden studies protein folding, protein structure/function relationships, protein-protein interactions and the mechanism of enzymatic reactions. These investigations aim to understand the nature of the intermediate structures on the unfolding and refolding pathways, including the role of proteins ...

Richard Loomis

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Richard Loomis, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, is a physical chemist making inroads into high-speed computing. Loomis received his doctorate in chemistry in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania and then received a prominent National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship with the National ...

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

John Steven Taylor

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Taylor is a chemist who has developed an alternative to chemotherapy that relies on using sequences of mutated human DNA as a trigger to release a drug. The sequence is not used as a target, rather as a trigger to cause the catalytic release of a drug. Taylor, a synthetic organic chemist, says the ...

Welch, an expert in synthetic chemistry, has been a leader for more than 30 years in the development of synthetic imaging agents that have allowed doctors to use positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose an increasingly wide variety of disorders. He is also head of the Radiochemistry Institute ...

Karen Wooley

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Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D, professor of chemistry, has done important research in polymers and nanoparticles. Her interests include bioorganic chemistry; nanotechnology; material science; and atomic force microscopy. These interests are broadly focused upon the design, synthesis and characterization ...