Victoria J. Derose
Voting Member
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
ASBMB
United States of America
Biography
B.A., University of Chicago, 1983. PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1990 (Mel Klein and Ken Sauer). Postdoctoral: Northwestern University (Brian Hoffman). Assistant (1995-01) and Associate (2001-05) Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University. Honors and Awards: NIH Postdoctoral fellow, 1991-94; NSF CAREER awardee, 1997; Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, 1998; Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar,1999; AFS College of Science Teaching Award, 2000. University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Members Excellence Award, 2008. American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 2010. At UO since 2006.
Research Interest
She is investigating chemical activity and structure in nucleic acids and proteins, with an emphasis on metal interactions. Proteins have long been known to exploit and tune the reactive properties of metals in order to perform reactions that are sometimes unavailable to the benchtop chemist
