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Jeff D. Cronk |
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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Dr. Cronk, a native of Seattle and University of Washington alum (B.S. Chemistry, B.S. Mathematics, 1988), is an established PUI investigator in the field of structural enzymology. In between two stints at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, first as a research tech, then as an NIH post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Cronk earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from UC Berkeley in 1996, having been trained in protein crystallography in the laboratory of Tom Alber. It was as an FHCRC post-doc that he began structure-function studies of bacterial carbonic anhydrase, a project he brought with him to Gonzaga University upon being appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Fall of 2001. While taking on the challenges of the teaching vocation, Dr. Cronk continued to advance his research, working with GU undergraduates. By 2007, Cronk had been awarded an NIH-AREA grant to further characterize conformational switching and an allosteric bicarbonate binding site he discovered in carbonic anhydrase from Escherichia coli, as well to begin to exploit the enzyme’s potential as a drug target for tuberculosis treatment, and had earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. |
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