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R. Andrew Byrd, Ph.D.

Structural Biophysics Laboratory Head, Macromolecular NMR Section Laboratory Chief Building 538, Room 120 NCI-Frederick Frederick, MD 21702-1201 Phone:   301-846-1407 Fax:   301-846-6231 E-Mail:   rabyrd@ncifcrf.gov

Biography

Dr. Byrd received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1977, specializing in high-resolution biomolecular NMR. He was a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently a research officer in the Molecular Biophysics Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada, where he investigated biological membranes by solid-state NMR. Following a period as a senior investigator at the Center for Drugs and Biologics/FDA, he established the Macromolecular NMR Section of the ABL-Basic Research Program at the NCI-Frederick in 1992. Dr. Byrd is the chief of the Structural Biophysics Laboratory in the Center for Cancer Research, NCI. He chaired the Experimental NMR Conference in 1992 and cochaired the International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems in 1996.

Research

Structural Biophysics Laboratory
The Structural Biophysics Laboratory (SBL) focuses on solution structural biology and biophysics aimed at understanding and regulating the mechanism of action of proteins and nucleic acids. The major structural tool for the SBL is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and the Laboratory has a very strong interdisciplinary drug design effort, which encompasses synthetic and mechanistic chemistry, structure-based design and modeling, confocal microscopy, and biochemical and biological mechanisms. PIs within the Laboratory are actively involved in the Chemistry and Structural Biology Faculty and the Molecular Targets Faculty of CCR.

This page was last updated on 9/19/2008.