Jane Park, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kit Cummins‘ group, was awarded the first place prize in the Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM) of the American Chemical Society’s 2023 Postdoctoral Scholar Poster Competition. Park was awarded for her presentation, which was entitled “The use of a pentaphosphorylating reagent to prepare nucleoside hexa- and heptaphosphates: Experimental and computational studies for their interaction with the RNase A”.
Park, who was born and raised in South Korea, has been a member of the Cummins Lab since May of 2022. Following the completion of her undergraduate and masters’ degrees in South Korea, Park earned her PhD in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 2022.
