Researcher

Zachary Gates is a Senior Scientist jointly appointed between the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2). He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Stephen Kent, focused on applying chemical methods to study protein structure and folding. As a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Brad Pentelute, he built on this foundation to develop new approaches for ligand discovery using chemical libraries and mass spectrometry. The highlighted study is an important step toward extending these approaches to a chemical modality of emerging significance as therapeutics.