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Sarah Delaney
American chemist and academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sarah Delaney is an American chemist who is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Brown University.[1] Her research investigates DNA damage and how it is related to human disease.[2]
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Early life and education
Delaney was an undergraduate student at Middlebury College, where she majored in chemistry, researching cisplatin anti-cancer analogs.[citation needed] She moved to the California Institute of Technology for graduate research, where she worked alongside Jacqueline Barton on the role of DNA in charge-transfer reactions. In particular, she investigated whether the helical stack of base pairs in the double helix impact charge transport.[3]
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Research and career
After her PhD, Delaney was appointed a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow with John Essigmann at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[4] where she studied the mutagenicity of oxidized guanine lesions. Delaney has studied how DNA damage is related to human disease. At Brown University she serves as a professor of chemistry. In 2019. she was made director of graduate studies, and she implemented peer mentoring and regular advisor meetings for first year students, a journal club, a coffee hour and a weekly colloquium.[5] She was made senior associate dean of academic affairs for the graduate school in 2022.[5]
Awards and honors
- 2007 Damon Runyon postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[6]
- 2010 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award[7]
- 2020 Brown University Faculty Award for Graduate Student Advising and Mentoring[8]
Selected publications
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References
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