Alum Lieza Danan, CEO and co-founder of LiVeritas Biosciences, discusses her journey in startups and life, including her years at UC Davis, where she earned a Ph.D. degree in biological chemistry in 2009.
In nature, organic molecules are either left- or right-handed, but synthesizing molecules with a specific handedness in a lab is hard to do. Make a drug or enzyme with the wrong “handedness” and it just won’t work. Now chemists at the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis are getting closer to mimicking nature’s chemical efficiency through computational modeling and physical experimentation.
