2011 Abdus Salam Award Winner, Daniel Badali

Working with Professor Claudiu Gradinaru introduced me to both the  experimental and theoretical aspects of single-molecule biophysics.  I studied the binding kinetics between a new drug which targets the  cancerous protein STAT3, and this work was recently accepted for  publication in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. I then performed an  in-depth study of how the random motion of molecules affects their  ability to transfer energy between them; this work has significant  applications to FRET, a common technique used to measure small  distances between biomolecules.