Chemistry Department at Western Washington University

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SPENCER J. ANTHONY-CAHILL
Associate Professor
Biochemistry

Department of Chemistry
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9150

Office: CB440
Lab: CB412

Tel: (360) 650-3152
Fax: (360) 650-2826

sacahill@chem.wwu.edu

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Education
B.A. Whitman College, 1984.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkley, 1990.
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, DuPont Central Research/DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co., 1990-1992.
Research Scientist, Somatogen Inc., 1992-1997.

Research Interests
I am interested in protein folding and design. Research in my group is currently aimed at finding stably folded variants of myoglobin “circular permuteins”. Myoglobin is a small monomeric heme-containing protein which shares the same folded structure as each of the four subunits in hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is currently under investigation in human clinical trials for indications in blood replacement therapy, and for radiosensitization in cancer treatment. A clinically useful recombinant hemoglobin can be harvested from bacteria in commercial scale facilities.

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