Wesley Sundquist

Wesley I. Sundquist
BornSeptember 11, 1959 (age 65)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Alma materCarleton College (b.a; 1981)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD; 1988)
Known forResearch in HIV assembly and membrane remodeling
SpouseNola Sundquist
Children2
AwardsLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2024)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsStructural Biology, biochemistry, virology, cell biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah (1992) MRC Labratory of Molecular Biology

Wesley I. Sundquist (born September 11, 1959) is an American biochemist. Sundquist is Samuels Chair, Distinguished Professor, and Chair of the University of Utah Department of Biochemistry.[2] Sundquist's research focuses on cellular, molecular and structural biology of retroviruses, particularly Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and on cellular membrane remodeling by the Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport (ESCRT) pathway.

  1. ^ "Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist Awarded 2024 Horwitz Prize for Discovering the ESCRT Pathway". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  2. ^ "Wesley I. Sundquist | School of Medicine". medicine.utah.edu. 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2024-10-28.