Led by Prof. Mei Hong, senior research scientist at the PSFC's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT chemists have determined the molecular structure of a protein found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Professor Mei Hong has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as the winner of the 2021 Nakanishi Award, given in recognition of application of spectroscopy to biological phenomena.
A team of MIT chemists (Hong Lab) has discovered the structure of a key influenza protein (BM2), a finding that could help researchers design drugs that block the protein and prevent the virus from spreading.
Dongkeun Park has been instrumental in the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab's decade-long pursuit to build an 800 MHz high-temperature superconducting magnet for NMR spectroscopy, a technology that provides a unique insight into biological processes.