Dr. Mark Peczuh is the recipient of a 2016 Research Excellence Program Storrs (REP-Storrs) award. The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic Plan and national and global priorities.

Of 104 proposals submitted, Dr. Peczuh’s proposal was amongst those selected to receive funding:

Mark Peczuh, PI, Chemistry
Dennis Wright, Co-PI, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Victoria Robinson, Co-PI, Molecular & Cell Biology
“A Post-Glycosylation Diversification Strategy to Develop Inhibitors of Protein Synthesis”
$50,000