July 25, 2014
Kyle Konze, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received the American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellowship. The $26,000 award will be given to Konze during the 2014–2015 academic year.
The ACS has given this prestigious award annually since 1991.
Konze is currently a third-year PhD candidate in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. His graduate research is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule inhibitors of protein lysine methyltransferases. Jian Jin, PhD, is his faculty adviser.
Most recently, the Jin Lab developed a chemical probe called UNC0965, which was featured as the cover story in the journal, ChemMedChem. The probe, which is highly potent in vitro and capable of penetrating a cell, allowed Jin and his team to see the localization of G9a, a lysine methyltransferase, on chromatin.
Before beginning his graduate education at the School in the fall of 2011, Konze graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a degree in biomedical engineering.
By Abigail Brewer
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