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Dr. Susan Taylor is a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego and is a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. Dr. Taylor joined the UCSD faculty in 1972 and has since received numerous honors, fellowships and awards. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and received the Forefronts of Large Scale Computation Award in 1993. She was elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1996 and is a member of the National Institute of Medicine. She is a past president of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She has served on the Board of Councils for the National Cancer Institute, for the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and for NIDDK. She has also served on the General Medicine Council for NIH. Dr Taylor's research focuses on the structure and function of protein kinases and on the molecular basis for signal transduction. In 1991, Dr. Taylor and her group solved the 3-D crystal structure of the catalytic unit of cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase (CAPK). This structure was the first to be solved and serves as the prototype for the kinase super-family. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to study the structure and function of PKA signals. | 