June 6, 2009--Former ASBMB President Susan Taylor has been named the winner of the 2010 FASEB Excellence in Science Award. Dr. Taylor is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an HHMI investigator. Dr. Taylor's work focuses on cyclic adenosine monophosphate–dependent protein kinase, or protein kinase A (PKA). Dr. Taylor was ASBMB president in 1995.

FASEB Excellence in Science awardees receive $10,000 in research funding from Eli Lilly and Company and present a special lecture at a FASEB member society meeting. Dr. Taylor will present her lecture at the 2010 ASBMB Annual Meeting in Anaheim.

Dr. Taylor received the William C. Rose Award in 2007.

Recent ASBMB publications by Dr. Taylor's group:

Christine M. Gould, Natarajan Kannan, Susan S. Taylor, and Alexandra C. Newton. "The Chaperones Hsp90 and Cdc37 Mediate the Maturation and Stabilization of Protein Kinase C through a Conserved PXXP Motif in the C-terminal Tail," J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 284, Issue 8, 4921-4935, February 20, 2009

Jie Yang, Eileen J. Kennedy, Jian Wu, Michael S. Deal, Juniper Pennypacker, Gourisankar Ghosh, and Susan S. Taylor. "Contribution of Non-catalytic Core Residues to Activity and Regulation in Protein Kinase A," J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 284, Issue 10, 6241-6248, March 6, 2009

Visit Dr. Taylor's lab

Dr. Taylor at HHMI

Past winners of the FASB Excellence in Science Award