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COLLABORATIVE RESULTS Bioscience discoveries show the power of working together
Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
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In separate research, Dr. Eric
wo recent research accomplishments in which the UAH Department of Biological Sciences
Mendenhall, a UAH associate pro-
integration of a diversity of thought,”
fessor of biological science, teamed
Dr. Wolf says.
closely collaborated with partners from
with the HudsonAlpha Institute for
outside the university illustrate the
Biotechnology to identify the function
strength in such partnerships. Dr. Jerome Baudry (pronounced Bō-dre), a molecular biophysicist and the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Chair in Biological Sciences, joined with Hewlett
of 208 proteins responsible for
“Solving complex problems requires
The Department of Biological Sciences at UAH encourages faculty
orchestrating the regulation genes in
and students to work with each other
the human genome. The research was
and with local and national entities on
published in Nature in July.
collaborative projects, he says.
The partnerships were essential to
“The research successes of Eric
Packard Enterprise (HPE) to employ
the discoveries, says Dr. Paul Wolf,
Mendenhall and Jerome Baudry illus-
its Cray Sentinel supercomputer to
Biological Sciences chair, and UAH
trate the kind of breakthroughs that can
rapidly identify 125 naturally occurring
provides an ideal environment to
be made with such partnerships,” Dr.
compounds that show promise as treat-
nurture partnerships with industry
Wolf says. “We very much hope to see
ments for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
and other entities.
these collaborations grow in the future.”
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