Introducing Our Authors pubs.acs.org/acssensors
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JIN WANG
ELLEN BRIGGS
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Current Position. Associate Professor and CPRIT Scholar, Departments of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX. Education. B.S. in Chemistry, Peking University, China (2003); Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry with Dr. Matthew S. Platz, Ohio State University (2007); and Postdoctoral research in polymer chemistry and drug delivery under the guidance of Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008−2011). Nonscientific Interests. Watchingbut not playingAmerican football, traveling, and spending time with family. The overarching goal for my independent research is to develop new tools for biological and biomedical research and new pharmacotherapies to improve human health, based on my unique experience in organic chemistry, material sciences, cell biology, and preclinical studies. My group reported the first reversible reaction-based fluorescent probe that can quantify glutathione concentrations in living cells, and has provided a series of glutathione probes to the scientific community. Additionally, we developed a “first-in-class” small molecule inhibitor, termed SI-2, for a large, nonstructured nuclear protein−steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3)which is an important oncogene responsible for endocrine resistance, tumor proliferation, and metastasis. We are currently developing SI-2 derivatives that are suitable for clinical testing. (Read Wang’s letter; DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.7b00425).
Current Position. Postdoctoral researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Education. B.S. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, IL (2011); M.S. in Earth Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2014); and Ph.D. in Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2017). Nonscientific Interests. I enjoy sailing for racing, leisure, and work, as well as scuba diving, traveling to remote locations like Antarctica, baking, and other means of spending time near or on the ocean. I am part of a group that is focused primarily on developing chemical sensors for monitoring the aqueous carbon dioxide system in the open ocean and coastal regions on autonomous platforms such as moorings and profiling floats. This involves miniaturizing current and novel analytical principles to meet the rugged and low power demands of field deployable sensors in the ocean. My focus has been on developing a dual pH and total alkalinity sensor for measuring the aqueous carbon dioxide system on the fly, utilizing ion sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET) technology. (Read Briggs’s article; DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.7b00305).
Received: September 6, 2017 Published: September 22, 2017 © 2017 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00660 ACS Sens. 2017, 2, 1256−1256
