Lillian Chong
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
331 Eberly Hall
412-624-6026, 8611(fax)
ltchong@pitt.edu
Lillian Chong’s research
utilizes theory and computational simulations to study how
proteins fold, bind their partners, and catalyze reactions, with
an emphasis on examining how malfunctions at the molecular level
can be linked to clinical data for various diseases such as
certain forms of cancer and Alzheimer’s. To enable such
studies, her group develops techniques for accurately simulating
and analyzing protein structure and function with atomistic
detail, making use of distributed computing resources. Insight
gained from these studies could aid the development of
therapeutics, biosensors, and nanomaterials.
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Snapshots from a
protein folding simulation. The protein shown is a dimer
of the oligomerization domain of tumor suppressor p53. |
