Closing time, what a ride. On to a bigger and brighter future.

The Professor: Robert Coover PhD

Bio

Robert Coover received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He then received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. After honing skills in chemistry and its application to medicine, he decided to postdoc in an environment that would complement those skills and allow him to work on his life’s passion: Developing effective treatments for Neurofibromatosis Type 1. He did his postdoc at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital under the mentorship of Nancy Ratner. While there he successfully obtained external funding and published his research.

Some Lab Fun

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Winding down projects

A) Development of agonists and other small molecules to compensate for or restore aberrant signaling in an NF1 deficient setting.

B) Investigating receptor regulation and activity at the protein level in NF1. The techniques employed here utilize small molecules and bioengineering to determine the molecular underpinnings of cognitive manifestations observed in NF1 patients. Check back in for preprint!

Publications

Robert A. Coover Publications

Links and Resources

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/neurofibromatosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350490

https://www.ctf.org/

Protocols

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