David W. Wright
Vanderbilt University, USA
Biography
David Wright (b. 1965) attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana where he received a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in Classical Languages and Ancient History. He pursued his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA under the supervision of Prof. William. H. Orme-Johnson, focused on understanding the structure and function of the FeMo-cofactor of the enzyme nitrogenase. David joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2001. His research focus spans areas ranging from heme detoxification in hemophagous parasitic infectious diseases to developing tools and diagnostics for low-resource settings to understanding the biomineralization of novel materials in biological systems.
Abstract
Abstract : New Approaches to Low-Resource Diagnostics