The Ohio State University has installed the first 1.2 GHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscope in the United States. This milestone in U.S. life sciences and materials research infrastructure was funded and supported by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Rafael Brüschweiler, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and principal investigator of the National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center, is a leading expert in NMR. His cross-disciplinary research has been instrumental in the development of new techniques to understand the role of protein dynamics and interactions, as well as to analyze complex biological mixtures in metabolomics. The NMR spectroscope will be used by researchers at Ohio State and across the U.S. to study advanced materials, e.g., for batteries, and the structure and dynamics of biological molecules, with the goal of advancing the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of diseases, such as cancer, viral infections or Alzheimer’s.
