Tracy Handel

Professor Handel is one of the foremost experts in the area of protein structure and function, with an emphasis on G protein-coupled receptors and the chemokine receptor subclass. Tracy and her team determined some of first structures of chemokine receptors bound to ligands and has gained great insight into the structural requirements for binding and modulation of chemokine function. Tracy and Lassogen are collaborating on the design of novel lasso peptides as high affinity ligands for chemokine receptors and other GPCRs. She earned her PhD from California Institute of Technology and a Post-doc from DuPont Merck.