Barbara Ramsay Shaw
Barbara Ramsay Shaw | |
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| Born | Newton, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | University of Washington, Bryn Mawr College |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Duke University |
| Doctoral advisors | Michael Schurr and Walter Kauzmann |
| Doctoral students | Lawrence C Sowers, Robert Reynolds, Kenneth Porter, Loren Williams, Lisa (Frederico) Zuraw, Faqing Huang, Randall Richards, Mark Zottola, Kaizhang He, Jinlai Lin, Joy Wang, Hongyan Liu, Charlotta Wennefors, Laura Moussa, Mariam Sharaf, Marcus Cheek |
Barbara Ramsay Shaw is the William T. Miller Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Duke University, having been appointed to the Distinguished Professor position in 2006.[1]
Dr. Shaw is known for her work on boranophosphates.[2] She studied the chemical reactivity of DNA, and applied synthetic chemistry to gene expression, signal transduction, and cancer treatment.[3]
Dr. Shaw obtained her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1965 and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1973. Her Ph.D. advisors were Professors Michael Schurr of the University of Washington and Walter Kauzmann of Princeton University. Shaw obtained her post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Kensal van Holde at Oregon State University, where she helped establish the structure of the nucleosome.[4]
Dr. Shaw won Duke University's first ever . She was awarded a Five Year Research Development Grant from National Institutes of Health. She won major grants from NIH, American Cancer Society, and the National Science Foundation. At her retirement symposium, the Chair of the Duke Department of Chemistry reported that over her 40 year career, Dr. Shaw had brought more grant funds to Duke University than any other faculty member (excluding those in the Medical School).
References[]
- ^ "Chemistry News Archives". Duke University. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ Li, Ping; Sergueeva, Zinaida A.; Dobrikov, Mikhail; Shaw, Barbara Ramsay (1 November 2007). "Nucleoside and Oligonucleoside Boranophosphates: Chemistry and Properties". Chemical Reviews. 107 (11): 4746–4796. doi:10.1021/cr050009p. PMID 17967037.
- ^ Frederico, Lisa A.; Kunkel, Thomas A.; Shaw, Barbara Ramsay (1 March 1990). "A sensitive genetic assay for the detection of cytosine deamination: determination of rate constants and the activation energy". Biochemistry. 29 (10): 2532–2537. doi:10.1021/bi00462a015.
- ^ Van Hoide, K.E.; Sahasrabuddhe, C.G.; Shaw, Barbara Ramsay (1974). "A model for particulate structure in chromatin". Nucleic Acids Research. 1 (11): 1579–1586. doi:10.1093/nar/1.11.1579. PMC 343437. PMID 10793713.
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