Katherine Byrd
Katherine Byrd earned a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in May, 2015. Under the supervision of Professor Paul Helquist, she worked on the design, synthesis and application of cholesterol-based molecular probes as biochemical tools for the study of cholesterol trafficking. In August 2015, Katherine joined Dr. Blagg’s laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. She is working on the design and synthesis of novel C-terminal Hsp90 inhibitors.