Agilent
Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and the Agilent Technologies Foundation today
announced that professor Gerhard Wagner at Harvard Medical School has received
an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of his work using
high-magnetic-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to analyze large
proteins.
The
award will total nearly $373,000 over three years to help the lab develop fast
and efficient assignment methods for large proteins by NMR and make these
methods accessible to the structural biology community.
"NMR
spectroscopy has still a tremendous potential to grow and provide unique
information about important biological systems, such as large multidomain
proteins, protein complexes and membrane proteins," professor Wagner said.
"I expect that innovations in NMR will come from new experimental schemes,
supported by new expression and labeling schemes. The award from the Agilent
Foundation will be used to push such developments and make them widely
available to the scientific community. This will provide tools for generating
new insights into structures of large macromolecular complexes, understanding
of biological mechanisms and design of new drugs to fight human disease."
"We're
pleased to support professor Wagner's work of making the benefits of
high-magnetic-field NMR spectroscopy available to biologists investigating the
vital roles that very large proteins play in the processes of life," said
Regina Schuck, Agilent vice president and general manager, Research Products
Division. "Most government agencies fund research into the causes of
diseases. In this case, we're funding development of better tools for doing the
research."
The
methods developed under this project will be shared with the biology community
through scientific publication and on the Wagner team's website at http://gwagner.med.harvard.edu/home.
Agilent's
Thought Leader program promotes fundamental advances in the life sciences by
contributing financial support and sometimes scientific instrumentation and/or
expertise to the research of influential thought leaders.
About Agilent
Technologies
Agilent
Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a
technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and
communications. The company's 18,500 employees serve customers in more than 100
countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2010. Information
about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.