Emerging investigators 2009

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Abstract

The following authors, whose papers are published in this issue, were invited to submit their work for the Molecular BioSystems 2009 Emerging Investigators issue. Unfortunately they didn’t make the dedicated issue in time (See: www.molecularbiosystems.org/ei2009), but we publish them in this issue and profile them below.

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Shih-Yuan Liu received his BS degree in Chemistry from Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 1998. During his undergraduate education he spent a year abroad at UNC Chapel Hill as part of the Trans Atlantic Science Student Exchange Program (TASSEP) where he worked under the guidance of Prof. James P. Morken. He did his doctoral work at MIT with Prof. Gregory C. Fu and received his PhD degree in 2003. He then pursued his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera, also at MIT. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon in June 2006 where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His research interests include the development of boron–nitrogen heterocycles for biomedical applications. See DOI: 10.1039/b904120f in this issue.

Takuro Niidome was born in Kagoshima, Japan. He received his PhD from Kyushu University in Japan in 1994, where he joined the laboratory of Prof. Akio Ito and studied protein transport into mitochondria. He began his academic career at Nagasaki University as Assistant Professor, where he started to study gene transfection into cells. During this period, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Leaf Hunag at the University of Pittsburgh in USA for one year and studied the development of a functional gene delivery system. In 2004, he then joined Kyushu University in Japan as an Associate Professor. He continues to study functional gene delivery systems for clinical application. In addition, he currently studies gold nanoparticles for photothermal therapy and a functional drug delivery system that responds to near infrared light. See DOI: 10.1039/b900880b in this issue.

Jesper V. Olsen is Research Professor at the Center for Protein Research at University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He received his PhD in Molecular Biology from Matthias Mann’s laboratory at University of Southern Denmark in 2006. After post-doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, he joined the newly established Center for Protein Research in 2009. Professor Olsen’s research interests are in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. His lab focuses on development of quantitative mass spectrometric tools and technologies for systems-wide analysis of proteins and their modifications, and they apply these methods to study disease signaling networks. See DOI: 10.1039/b902256b in this issue.

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