Department of Chemistry

 Professor Chia-en Chang has been awarded the NSF CAREER award for her project, "Development and Application of Multi-scale Modeling for Biomolecular Association". This project uses computer modeling to investigate complex interactions among molecules. Understanding association processes will increase our fundamental understanding of bio-molecular binding and its applications. The project will combine multi-level coarse-grained and atomistic simulations to efficiently and accurately model molecular associations and kinetic enhancement of the enzymes and multi-proteins complex systems studied in this research.Successful completion of this research will improve understanding of protein binding kinetics and assist the design of nanostructures, nano-particles and engineered enzymes.