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Born: September 12, 1932 Pittsburgh PA
High School: 1950 Avonworth HS, Ben Avon, PA
Undergraduate: BS Ch.E. Grove City College, Grove City, PA 1954
Process Engineer, Atlas Powder Co, Wilmington, Delaware: Koppers Co. , Pittsburgh PA. 1954-1960.
Analyst, Dept. of Experimental Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 1960-1962
Graduate: PhD Biochemistry. Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Thesis advisor, Erland Gjessing. 1965
Post Doctorals: Dept. of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.
Advisor, Peter H. von Hippel. 1965-1967. Dept of Molecular Biiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Advisor, Peter H. von Hippel. 1967-1969.
Faculty: Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu Hawaii at Manoa. 1969-1995.
Teaching: Premed Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Graduate Biochemistry
Graduate Biophysics, Computer-Assisted Data Analysis in Biochemistry, Nucleic
Acid Structure, Biomolecular Equilibria, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
Community Service: President, the local American Chemical Society, Coordinator for Problem Based Learning in Medicine, Instrument Design (Sub-Dermal pH electrodes), Science Fair Judge 1972-1989
Research Publications: Some representative papers can be found in Google Scholars, under the name, Bruce McConnell.
Research Projects Funded:
Principal Investigator NMR proton exchange of DNA and RNA nucleotides NSF $263,700, National Science Foundation. 1970-1982
Co-Pi, 300 MHz NMR spectrometer with the Dept. of Chemistry. $150,000 NSF 1981
Co-Pi 500 MHz NNMR specrometer with the Dept of Chemistry $370,000 NSF 1988
iP(31) NMR Turnover kinetics of 1,3-diphosphoglyceric acid in human and porpoise blood. Intramural Grants, $3,500
Grant award for “The Birth Constellation: Hallucinogens and Birth” from Kapiolani Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Honolulu, HI. Human Placenta. 1992
Co-Pi, Tuned laser-RAMAN pulse acquisition. Hawaii Institute of Geophysics. $78,000 NSF 1985
DNA sequencing and Oligonucleotide synthesis, $7000, Intramural Grant 1983
Invited Speaker: 11th Jerusalem Symposium on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Biology, Jerusalem, Israel 1978
RAMAN spectroscopy of Nucleic Acids, Goa India 1985
Asia-Pacific Conference, Tokyo and Nagoya ca. 1980
Sabbstical: National NMR facility, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Oleg Jardetsky
Patent: A Method for the Treatment of Malaria, Bruce McConnell and Christopher Locher. Patent # 5,874,477
Research Professor, Center for Non-Invasive Diagnosis, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1995-1998.
Funded Research: Principal Investigator, “3D NMR of RNA Stem Loops”, $25,000.
High School: 1950 Avonworth HS, Ben Avon, PA
Undergraduate: BS Ch.E. Grove City College, Grove City, PA 1954
Process Engineer, Atlas Powder Co, Wilmington, Delaware: Koppers Co. , Pittsburgh PA. 1954-1960.
Analyst, Dept. of Experimental Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 1960-1962
Graduate: PhD Biochemistry. Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Thesis advisor, Erland Gjessing. 1965
Post Doctorals: Dept. of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.
Advisor, Peter H. von Hippel. 1965-1967. Dept of Molecular Biiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Advisor, Peter H. von Hippel. 1967-1969.
Faculty: Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu Hawaii at Manoa. 1969-1995.
Teaching: Premed Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Graduate Biochemistry
Graduate Biophysics, Computer-Assisted Data Analysis in Biochemistry, Nucleic
Acid Structure, Biomolecular Equilibria, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
Community Service: President, the local American Chemical Society, Coordinator for Problem Based Learning in Medicine, Instrument Design (Sub-Dermal pH electrodes), Science Fair Judge 1972-1989
Research Publications: Some representative papers can be found in Google Scholars, under the name, Bruce McConnell.
Research Projects Funded:
Principal Investigator NMR proton exchange of DNA and RNA nucleotides NSF $263,700, National Science Foundation. 1970-1982
Co-Pi, 300 MHz NMR spectrometer with the Dept. of Chemistry. $150,000 NSF 1981
Co-Pi 500 MHz NNMR specrometer with the Dept of Chemistry $370,000 NSF 1988
iP(31) NMR Turnover kinetics of 1,3-diphosphoglyceric acid in human and porpoise blood. Intramural Grants, $3,500
Grant award for “The Birth Constellation: Hallucinogens and Birth” from Kapiolani Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Honolulu, HI. Human Placenta. 1992
Co-Pi, Tuned laser-RAMAN pulse acquisition. Hawaii Institute of Geophysics. $78,000 NSF 1985
DNA sequencing and Oligonucleotide synthesis, $7000, Intramural Grant 1983
Invited Speaker: 11th Jerusalem Symposium on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Biology, Jerusalem, Israel 1978
RAMAN spectroscopy of Nucleic Acids, Goa India 1985
Asia-Pacific Conference, Tokyo and Nagoya ca. 1980
Sabbstical: National NMR facility, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Oleg Jardetsky
Patent: A Method for the Treatment of Malaria, Bruce McConnell and Christopher Locher. Patent # 5,874,477
Research Professor, Center for Non-Invasive Diagnosis, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1995-1998.
Funded Research: Principal Investigator, “3D NMR of RNA Stem Loops”, $25,000.
