Faculty Video – Fordham Now

The Power of Proteins in Human Health and Disease

Taylor Ha — Tue, 03 May 2022 20:23:46 +0000

Nicholas Sawyer, Ph.D., an assistant professor of bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology, is developing synthetic proteins that can lead to new drug treatments and help us better understand human health and disease.

“People have known about protein interactions since the 50’s. But at the same time, these protein interactions—the ways in which we were able to target and think about them as molecular targets—have really evolved in the past decade or two,” Sawyer said.

In this faculty mini-lecture, he breaks down his research and explains how his work can make a difference.

“Protein interactions are involved in every living system and disease,” Sawyer said. “We can pick and choose what we study, and we’re trying to go after things that are important to people.”

Mohammad Nejad on Data Breaches

Taylor Ha — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:35:26 +0000

Mohammad Nejad, Ph.D., associate professor in the Gabelli School of Business, talks about data breaches in the 21st century and simple ways to protect yourself.

Christopher GoGwilt on Starlings, Mimicry, and Poetry

Tom Stoelker — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:13:54 +0000

In a book of essays he edited with several other scholars, titled Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes (Fordham University Press, 2018), Fordham Professor of English Christopher GoGwilt, Ph.D., examined the role that starlings, parrots, and other mockingbirds play in literature, both as motifs and as metaphors. In this video he takes it a bit further.