Elizabeth Marie Nolan was born on 1978 and is an American chemist and associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Elizabeth Nolan was awarded a Fulbright Program Scholarship and moved to France to study siderophore-iron complexes.
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Elizabeth Nolan developed small molecule fluorescent sensors to monitor for zinc in neurobiology and mercury in aqueous solutions.
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Elizabeth Nolan was awarded a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health grant in 2010 to study antibacterial peptides and zinc in innate immunity.
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Elizabeth Nolan explores the coordination chemistry of metal ions in biological systems; in particular how proteins destroy microbes by denying them metal nutrients.
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Elizabeth Nolan looks at the peptides and metalloproteins that are involved in mammalian immune response.
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Elizabeth Nolan's current focus is on calprotectins and how they bind metals.
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Elizabeth Nolan used magnetic circular dichroism to study the binding of iron to human calprotectin.
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Elizabeth Nolan's group look to understand how Neuronal cells process and removes SOD1 point mutants.
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Elizabeth Nolan proposes that hijacking the siderophore uptake pathways could allow new prevention and treatment against diseases.
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Elizabeth Nolan worked with Manuela Raffatellu at University of California, Irvine to develop a new immunisation strategy against salmonella.
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Elizabeth Nolan is on the editorial board of Cell Chemical Biology.