Kendra K. Frederick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Her lab focuses on developing applications and methodology for sensitivity-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy to determine how cellular environments affect protein structures, such as those involved in the initiation and progression of human diseases.

Dr. Frederick holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and French from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in Protein Structure, Function and Engineering from the Université de Paris XI and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Kendra K. Frederick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Her lab focuses on developing applications and methodology for sensitivity-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy to determine how cellular environments affect protein structures, such as those involved in the initiation and progression of human diseases.

Dr. Frederick holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and French from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in Protein Structure, Function and Engineering from the Université de Paris XI and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Frederick received a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA fellowship from the NIH and a Life Science Research Foundation Fellowship from the HHMI to pursue postdoctoral training with Dr. Susan Lindquist and Dr. Robert Griffin at MIT.

Since establishing her independent group, in addition to receiving a CPRIT recruitment award, Dr. Frederick has been named a Searle Scholar and the Lupe Murchinson Foundation Scholar in Medical Research and has received a CAREER Award from the NSF and the Director’s New Innovator Award from the NIH.

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