David Drew hails from New Zealand and came to Stockholm University for the first time as a doctoral student. He had studied physiology and pharmacology and was fascinated by how the body worked. At the same time, he looked with some frustration at the large complex systems, where it is very difficult to know exactly what is happening and what is making a difference. The research on membrane proteins makes science clearer.
To find out how proteins look and work, David Drew uses methods to look at the positions of individual atoms. One such method is X-ray crystallography. X-rays are pushed through a crystal of the proteins, and based on the scattering of the rays an image of what the carrier looks like at atomic level is given.
Read more about David Drew's research here.
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