Ph.D. Candidate Kate Mittendorf '10 Honored by Vanderbilt U School of Medicine

October 25, 2014

Kathleen F. "Kate" Mittendorf, a 2010 graduate of DePauw University who is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of biochemistry and Center for Structural Biology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, is the 2015 recipient of the Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology. The Karpay Award recognizes "one senior graduate student who is a well-rounded colleague and scientist, who is collaborative and collegial and who has performed exceptional research in the field of structural biology."

Mittendorf is affiliated with the Sanders Lab at Vanderbilt. There "her research has focused on human membrane proteins related to disease, primarily peripheral myelin 22, which plays a role in heritable neuropathies," notes an announcement. "She has collaborated extensively with the Mel Ohi lab by utilizing electron microscopy to study this integral membrane protein. She has also performed research in the development of novel bicelles, a membrane mimetic, for improved studies of membrane proteins by solution NMR."

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In 2011, research co-authored by Kate Mittendorf was published in the journal Biochemistry. 

As a DePauw sophomore, Kate Mittendorf (who was a biochemistry major and Science Research Fellow) received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.  You'll find details in this previous story.

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