June 8, 2017
Nadja Cech, Patricia A. Sullivan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative, is a mass spectrometrist. She specializes in analytical and natural products research, and supervises a highly collaborative and dynamic team of 12 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers. Dr. Cech directs a National Institutes of Health funded predoctoral fellowship program focused on training and mentorship of students in the field of natural products, one of only two programs of this nature in the US. The Cech group is recognized for their expertise in mass spectrometry metabolomics, particularly as it applies to studying synergy in complex natural product mixtures and in the development of novel approaches to target drug resistant bacterial infections.
Nadja spent much of her childhood living with her family of 5 in a 300 square foot yurt on a farm in Southern Oregon.