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Katherine J. Franz, PhD

Alexander Hehmeyer Professor and Chair of Chemistry
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States

Katherine J. Franz is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor and Chair of Chemistry at Duke University. As an undergraduate she conducted research with Prof. James Loehlin at Wellesley College and Dr. Richard Fish at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She obtained her PhD in inorganic chemistry with Prof. Stephen J. Lippard at MIT, and completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Barbara Imperiali, also at MIT. Since 2003, Kathy and her research group at Duke have focused on elucidating the structural and functional consequences of metal ion coordination in biological systems, both by endogenous species and by synthetic molecules of their own design. They are particularly interested in understanding the coordination chemistry of essential yet toxic species like copper and iron, and using these principles to guide the development of new chemical tools to manipulate the location, speciation, and reactivity of metal ions in complex and dynamic environments like those found in biological systems. Kathy has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and a Bass Society Fellowship (Duke). Kathy is a member of the Editorial Board of Metallomics and recently received the ACS National Award for Encouraging Women in the Chemical Sciences.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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