University of the Western Cape Student Visits BioBRU

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Above: Julian Sheldon (Picture Credit: Julian Sheldon)
Above: Julian Sheldon (Picture Credit: Julian Sheldon)


Julian Sheldon visited BioBRU for six weeks. Julian is an MSc student from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in the discipline of Pharmaceutical Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Denzil R Beukes (UWC), Dr Edith Antunes (UWC) and Professor Adrienne Edkins (Rhodes University). Julian obtained a BSc Medical Bioscience and BPharmacy degrees from UWC in 2012 and 2016 respectively. He has been working in collaboration with Rhodes University under Professor Edkins in BioBRU with the aim of expressing and purifying Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) domains. The aim of the collaboration is to identify inhibitors of the protein domains and to study their specific interactions by Saturation Transfer Difference (STD) NMR.