Wayne D. Frasch PhD

Frasch, a professor and faculty leader of the Biomedicine & Biotechnology group at Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences, initially developed the innovative single-molecule diagnostic methods for his basic research investigating the molecular mechanism of the FoF1 ATP synthase molecular motor, which has had nearly 20 years of NIH funding. These studies are providing new understanding into the process by which all living organisms convert food into biologically useful energy, and also address fundamental questions concerning how a protein can generate torque on the nanoscale with nearly 100 percent energy efficiency