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IGM Biosciences Appoints Lisa Decker, Ph.D., as Chief Business Officer – Ms. Decker Brings 20 Years of Development Experience in the Life Sciences Industry –
March 15, 2021 07:00 ET | Source: IGM Biosciences IGM Biosciences Mountain View, California, UNITED STATES
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) IGM Biosciences, Inc. (IGM), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on creating and developing engineered IgM antibodies, today announced the appointment of Lisa L. Decker, Ph.D., to the newly created position of Chief Business Officer. Ms. Decker joins IGM with twenty years of experience in business development strategy, transactions and alliance management. Most recently, Ms. Decker was Chief Business Officer at Atreca, Inc., where she led business development, including the portfolio and alliance management functions.
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Anand was awarded LB2C funding for his project titled “Targeting Virus Breathing Hotspots for Antibody Discovery.” Anand looks for vulnerabilities on a virus that could be tapped to generate antibodies for use in antiviral therapies. He is particularly interested in understanding the structural changes of viral surface proteins as the virus dissembles and enters human host cells. These structural changes part of a process called viral breathing could reveal critical locations called epitopes where antibodies can bind to the virus.
Anand will then work with collaborators to test the effectiveness of antibodies designed to target certain epitopes that, for example, occur across a variety of virus variants or are particularly accessible. This approach, which uniquely seeks to merge the biophysical insights of viral breathing with targeted antibody discovery, preemptively identifies new antibodies and could thus greatly advance viral pandemic preparedness.
When burned, natural gas the fuel used to heat homes, cook food and generate electricity produces carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the US consumed approximately 31 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2019, contributing roughly 1.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
A better way to use natural gas would be to convert it to methanol, a liquid fuel that burns more cleanly and can be used to produce gasoline and plastics. But converting the methane found in natural gas into methanol requires a lot of heat and pressure and generates a significant amount of carbon dioxide itself.
New Methane-to-Methanol Conversion Method Could Offer Cleaner Energy Source
Written by AZoMFeb 22 2021
Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago have found a new method for conversion of methane in natural gas the fuel used to cook food, heat homes and produce electricity into liquid methanol at room temperature.
Burning methane in natural gas contributes to carbon emissions, but methane converted to liquid methanol is a cleaner fuel. Image Credit: Aditya Prajapati and Meenesh Singh/University of Illinois Chicago.
This breakthrough, published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could probably offer a cleaner energy source for several daily activities of people.