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Carlin Award recipient's passion for science is nothing to sneeze at
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The cold may be common, but its cure remains elusive. Autumn Holmes aims to change that.
Holmes, a graduate student in the UCI School of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, believes an enzyme may hold answers.
Holmes’ doctoral thesis focuses on deciphering how a host cell enzyme, tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 2 (TDP2), functions with viruses that cause the common cold, as well as related viruses.
She also wants to know whether TDP2 inhibitors can be modified to treat people for whom colds caused by human rhinovirus may have more serious effects, such as asthmatics or patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Learn more about Autumn Holmes and the Carlin Award here.
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