Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award winner

Jaime Cheah

After Jaime Cheah graduated from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry, she worked as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School in Dr. Tom Ellenberger’s lab, where she worked on crystallization of lambda integrase and site-directed mutagenesis of AlkA. During her last three years at McGill University, Jaime undertook her undergraduate research project in Dr. Alice Vrielink’s lab, where she crystallized and solved the structure of L-amino acid oxidase.

Jaime is currently enrolled in the Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Ph.D. programme at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) and is conducting her thesis work in the laboratory of Dr. Solomon Snyder. Jaime has been working on determining the function of Dexras1, a small G-protein discovered by Dr Snyder’s lab to be regulated by neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) via S-nitrosylation. Her current work shows that Dexras1 mediates iron uptake in neurons.