Biochemistry assistant professor Philip Romero and neuroscience assistant professor Ari Rosenberg are the recipients of 2018 Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
microfluidics
Romero targets wide-ranging applications with data-driven protein engineering
Phil Romero wants to understand how proteins accomplish that job so that he can eventually apply their power to important problems in medicine, agriculture, chemistry and bioenergy. He is betting on the top-down approach: learning how protein sequence translates into function by analyzing massive data sets.