Natalie A. Ciaccio

Natalie a 2006 - 2010 Self Fellow, received a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry in 2010. She participated in a Pharmacy Management Summer Training Program funded by Walgreens Corporation. Natalie worked as a quality control representative for Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis for three years, and later worked as a research specialist in the biopharmaceutical science department at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She also worked as a licensed staff pharmacist in Indiana and Illinois. At KU she has received the Takeru Higuchi Fellowship and participated in student organizations. Natalie's research interests involve the structural and functional analysis of proteins for the purposes of better understanding the role these proteins play in intracellular signaling and regulation of cellular events. Natalie is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, School of Pharmacy, at the University of California, San Francisco.

Mentor: Jennifer S. Laurence, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry