Cathy Drennan

**Catherine (Cathy) Drennan** Masanin kimiyyar halittu ne na Amurka kuma mai rubutun halittu. 
Ita ce farfesa a fannin kimiyyar halittu a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts kuma farfesa a Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Howard Hughes.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
Drennan ta girma a New York tare da iyayenta ( likitan likita da masanin ilimin ɗan adam). [1]  Ta sami digiri na farko a fannin ilmin sunadarai daga Kwalejin Vassar, tana aiki a dakin gwaje-gwaje na Farfesa Miriam Rossi . [2] Bayan kwaleji, Drennan ya shafe lokaci a matsayin malamin kimiyya da wasan kwaikwayo na makarantar sakandare, a makarantar Quaker a Iowa.[3][4] Ta sami digirinta na PhD a ilmin sunadarai daga Jami'ar Michigan a shekarar 1995, tana aiki a dakin gwaje-gwaje na marigayi Farfesa Martha L Ludwig . Takardar Drennan tana da taken "Kiririn crystallographic na FMN da Vitamin B12 Dependent Enzymes: Flavodoxin da Methionine Synthase" . [5][6]

Bayan ta PhD, ta shiga Douglas Rees a matsayin abokiyar Postdoctoral a Cibiyar Fasaha ta California .  A lokacin da take aiki a matsayin abokiyar karatun digiri, a cikin 1997, ta fara kuma ta jagoranci gasar takardun karatun digiri a taron shekara-shekara na American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Ta kuma yi aiki a Kwamitin Ilimi da Ci gaban Kwararru na ASBMB . 

Drennan yana da dyslexic, amma ya yi imanin cewa wannan yana da fa'idodi a kimiyya, "kada ku saurari abin da kowa ya gaya muku abin da za ku iya ko ba za ku iya yi ba... babu rufin dyslexia". A makarantar sakandare, an gaya wa Drennan "watakila ba ta zuwa makarantar sakandare ba saboda dyslexia".

## Bincike
Drennan ya shiga bangaren koyarwa a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts a shekarar 1999. A Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts, Drennan tana mai da hankali kan kirkire-kirkire a ilimi da bincike na asali. Tana da sha'awar makomar ɗakunan kwaleji da ƙirƙirar kyakkyawan yanayin ilmantarwa ga ƙungiyoyi daban-daban na ɗalibai. An san ta da gudummawar da ta bayar ga ilimin kimiyya. A shekarar 2006 an kira Drennan Farfesa na HHMI kuma an ba shi tallafin dala miliyan 1 don tallafawa shirye-shiryen ilimi don "Getting Biologists Excited about Chemistry".

Drennan ta yi nazarin enzymes da ke amfani da Bitamin B12 tun lokacin da ta kasance daliba mai digiri. Binciken da ta mayar da hankali shine metalloproteins da metalloenzymes, da kuma bunkasa hanyoyin tsari don ganin enzymes. Kungiyar ta tana amfani da X-ray crystallography da microscopy na lantarki don nuna alamun metaloproteins a cikin aiki. Tana da sha'awar canjin yanayi a lokacin catalysis. Ayyukanta kuma suna ba da gudummawa ga kare muhalli, yayin da karafa ke aiki a matsayin mataimakan kwayoyin a cikin halayen sunadarai. Drennan shine marubucin fiye da dari (100) Protein Data Bank.

## Kyaututtuka da girmamawa

* **2000**
** Kyautar Binciken Gidauniyar Surdna 
** Cecil da Ida Green Ci gaban Ayyuka 
* 2001 - Searle Scholar 
* 2002 - Kyautar Farko ta Shugaban kasa ga Masana kimiyya da Injiniyoyi 
* 2003 - ASBMB-Schering-Plough Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya 
* 2004 - Kyautar Kyautar Harkokin Kwalejin Harold E. Edgerton 
* 2005 - Kyautar Tunawa da Everett Moore Baker don Kyakkyawan Koyarwa 
* 2006 - Farfesa a Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Howard Hughes 
* 2008 - Mai bincike na Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Howard Hughes 
* 2017 - Farawar Winter Bicentennial Alumni Award. 
* **2020**
** memba na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka 
** Kyautar Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, The Protein Society 
* 2021- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Fellow 
* **2023**
** Kungiyar Kimiyya ta Tsarin  (ACA)  Fellow 
** memba na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Kasa 

## Haɗin waje

* Jennifer Viegas: *Bayanan Catherine Drennan.* PNAS. Fashewa. 121 (46), Nuwamba 2024, e2420751121. .

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