Angela Koehler Explained

Angela Nicole Koehler
Workplaces:California Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Broad Institute
Alma Mater:Harvard University
Reed College
Thesis Title:Small molecule microarrays: A high-throughput tool for discovering protein-small molecule interactions
Thesis Url:https://www.proquest.com/openview/a60083f8326825cd59a7d5642167f838/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Thesis Year:2003
Doctoral Advisor:Stuart Schreiber

Angela N. Koehler is an American biochemist who is the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Chemical Biology at the Broad Institute. Her research considers the development of chemical tools to understand transcriptional regulation, and the design of next-generation pharmaceuticals.

Early life and education

Koehler was an undergraduate student in biochemistry at Reed College.[1] She worked on structural studies of proteins that recognize nucleic acids, including transfer RNA and DNA.[2] She moved to Harvard University as a doctoral researcher, where she worked alongside Stuart Schreiber on strategies to understand the interactions between proteins and molecules.

Research and career

Koehler joined the chemical biology program at the Broad Institute, where she was made group leader for chemical genetics. Koehler develops time-sensitive chemical tools to understand the dynamics of transcriptional regulation. Before the work of Koehler it was understood that transcription factors were "undruggable", as their inherent structural disorder compromised the binding of small-molecule ligands.[3] Her research looks to develop small-molecule probes[4] that modify proteins, which can, in turn, tune gene expression.[5]

Koehler is on the faculty at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.[6] She has founded several companies, including Ligon Discovery, a drug discovery company focused on small-molecule microarrays, Kronos Bio,[7] [8] a cancer therapeutics accelerator and 76Bio,[9] a biotechnology company that looks to develop targeted protein degraders.

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: alan . Alumni News from Reed Magazine, March '13 Chemistry News . 2022-10-15 . en-US.
  2. Web site: Angela Koehler, PhD MIT Department of Biological Engineering . 2022-10-15 . be.mit.edu . en.
  3. Henley . Matthew J. . Koehler . Angela N. . September 2021 . Advances in targeting 'undruggable' transcription factors with small molecules . Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery . 20 . 9 . 669–688 . 10.1038/s41573-021-00199-0 . 1474-1784 . 34006959. 234780718 .
  4. Web site: 2019-01-23 . Angela Koehler . 2022-10-15 . Broad Institute . en.
  5. Web site: Angela Koehler (MIT) Target 2035 . 2022-10-15 . www.target2035.net.
  6. Web site: 2013-11-22 . Broad announces new Merkin Institute Fellows . 2022-10-15 . Broad Institute . en.
  7. Web site: Angela Koehler, Ph.D.. 2022-10-16 . Kronos Bio.
  8. Ryan Cross . 2018-11-05 . Kronos Bio . C&EN Global Enterprise . en . 96 . 44 . 38–39 . 10.1021/cen-09644-cover6 . 239821660 . 2474-7408. free .
  9. Web site: Home - 76bio . 2022-10-15 . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2012-12-03 . Angela Koehler: The Small Molecule World . 2022-10-15 . GenomeWeb . en.
  11. Web site: HBC Research Seminar October 2020 . 2022-10-15 . hbc.ku.edu . en.
  12. Web site: ONO PHARMA FOUNDATION . 2022-10-15 . Grantmakers.io . en.
  13. Web site: Angela Koehler . 2022-10-15 . www.nasonline.org.
  14. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1845464 - CAREER: Reprogramming Transcriptional Regulation by Chemical Stabilization of Repressive Homodimers . 2022-10-15 . www.nsf.gov.
  15. Web site: MIT School of Engineering » Teaching Awards . 2022-10-15 . Mit Engineering . en-US.