Two Women Chemistry Scholars Have Been Named Moore Inventor Fellows

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named five scholars as 2022 Moore Inventor Fellows. The honorees each receive $825,000 over the next three years to further their research in science, medicine, and environmental conservation. Gordon Moore was a co-founder of Intel Corporation. The Moore Foundation named its first cohort of fellows in 2016 and will do so for a total of 10 years.

Among the five Moore Inventor Fellows this year are two women.

Rebecca Pompano is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia. Dr. Pompano’s invention is a biochemical system to map out protein secretion in live tissue biopsies, thus revealing mechanisms of inflammatory disease and informing drug design for cancer and autoimmunity. Dr. Pompano is a graduate of the University of Richmond in Virginia. She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Chicago.

Stefanie Sydlik is an associate professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She has developed a Biobinder for lead chelation. This is a biopolymer that can rapidly remove heavy metals from the body and is a promising therapy for low-level lead poisoning, for which there is currently no treatment. Dr. Sydlik joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in August 2015. She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.