• Royce Fellowship
Hans
Dietrich

Concentration 

Biophysics

Award Year 

2007
Smooth Operator: Cyclop's Nemesis

Smoothened Agonist (SAD) is known to operate on the protein Smoothened, which is important in limb and neutral differentiation, including bone growth. Hans's objective is to engineer a vehicle for the delivery of SAG, thereby stimulating new bone formation, and in the most extreme case, rescuing the condition of cyclopia.

In 2008, Hans received the Fulbright award to performing scientific research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen .