News item posted on 2015-10-01

Qiuyan Chen receives Karpay Award

Congratulations to Qiuyan Chen on being named the 2016 recipient of The Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology. “It is a tremendous honor for me to be chosen as the receipt of this year's Karpay Award,” Qiuyan said.

Qiuyan joined the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in 2010 after receiving her BA in Biotechnology from Tongii University in Shanghai, China. She is co-mentored by Dr. Tina Iverson and Dr. Seva Gurevich in the Department of Pharmacology and focuses her work on the structural basis of arrestin mediated G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling.

She has also collaborated with the Sanders Lab at Vanderbilt University, the Hubbel Lab at UCLA, the Klug Lab at Medical College of Wisconsin and the Dalby Lab at UT-Austin, using NMR, EPR, crystallography and other various techniques to look at arrestin dynamics.

Qiuyan will present the MBTP/CSB Seminar on January 19, 2016, at which time she will also receive her award.

Outside the lab, Qiuyan enjoys outdoor exercises and traveling.

The Karpay Award was established in 2010 to honor the memory of Dr. Anne Karpay who died after a four-year battle with breast cancer. It recognizes one senior graduate student who is a well-rounded colleague and scientist, who is collaborative and collegial and who has performed exceptional research in the field of structural biology. Karpay exemplified each characteristic and demonstrated a passion for science, for friendship and for life.

The Karpay Award is funded entirely by donations to an endowment managed through the Development Office of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Make donations to the fund through the Giving to Vanderbilt website. Contact Karen D. Davis in the CSB for more information or assistance in making a donation.


Author: Karen D. Davis