Professor Amy Rosenzweig receives the Hans Neurath Award from The Protein Society

Amy Rosenzweig, the Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry, has received the Hans Neurath Award from The Protein Society.

This award recognizes contributions of exceptional merit to basic protein research.

Rosenzweig was recognized, in part, for her important work on membrane-bound methane monooxygenase, which has inspired new ways to harness the energy of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, as an alternative liquid fuel source.

Rosenzweig will receive the award this July at The Protein Society’s annual meeting.

Professor Rosenzweig is a preeminent protein biochemist who tackles problems at the forefront of bioinorganic chemistry. Her lab studies metal-dependent methane oxidation, oxygen activation, and metal uptake and transport using structural, spectroscopic, biochemical, genetic, and bioinformatics approaches. Her contributions characterizing the membrane-bound methane monooxygenase have inspired new ways to harness the energy of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, as an alternative liquid fuel source. Other work from Professor Rosenzweig on copper uptake may hold therapeutic potential in Wilson’s disease, a genetic disorder leading to copper overload in humans. -The Protein Society Awards website

In 2017, Rosenzweig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Rosenzweig’s numerous honors include being elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007). Rosenzweig was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003.

Rosenzweig received the Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Chatt Award (2014), the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (2006), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Amherst College (2005).

Visit Professor Amy Rosenzweig’s website.

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The Powerful World of Proteins – Amy Rosenzweig studies how proteins and metals interact in the human body and in the environment – Northwestern Magazine