Our esteemed colleague Lewis Kay has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his remarkable work on multidimensional NMR.
http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2020-nas-election.html
This is an enormous accomplishment and a rarity for scientists outside the United States (or inside the United States for that matter).
Professor Lewis Kay was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from UBC, Okanagan campus, for his “pioneering research in biochemistry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy” at the 2019 Spring Convocation. Congratulations!
In a recent article in the Globe and Mail, Dr. Lewis Kay discusses why it is important to continue to nurture the next generation of scientists.
Congratulations to Professor Lewis Kay for receiving the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal!
The full story is featured on UofT New, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC News.
Using a combined cryo-EM and solution NMR approach the laboratories of John Rubinstein and Lewis Kay have determined the structure and equilibrium distribution of two unique conformers along the ATP hydrolysis cycle of the AAA+ unfoldase VAT. The paper published in PNAS (http://www.pnas.org/content/113/29/E4190.abstract) lends insight into how this class of molecular machines are able to convert the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into the mechanical force required […]
In the Editorial introducing this special issue , Kevin Gardner, Anthony Mittermeier and Frans Mulder note that Lewis is being honoured for his “innovative contributions to biomolecular NMR spectroscopy, as well as for his role as inspirer for a large group of young research professionals.”
They further comment that “Lewis has consistently been a pioneer in the development of novel methods essential to increasing the size […]