Biochemist Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Zucai
Suo, Biochemistry, received $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's
Faculty Early Career Development Awards program. The highly-competitive CAREER
awards are given only to the nation's most promising young scholars who are
believed likely to make important contributions to teaching and research in
their fields. The CAREER award will fund Suo's work on, "Kinetic, Dynamic,
and Structure-Function relationship Studies of a Y-Family polymerase," studies
that look at the way a group of enzymes, called the Y-family polymerases, "pave
over" or fix damaged spots in a DNA sequence, allowing DNA production to continue.
Understanding this process may eventually lead to a better understanding of
the causes of cancer formation.
Originally published Summer 2005
