Ann H. West
Associate Vice President of Research Development
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Telephone: 405-325-1810
Email: awest@ou.edu
Ann West is currently the Grayce B. Kerr Centennial Chair in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and is the Director of an NIH-funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Structural Biology. Her research focuses on microbial signal transduction and adaptive stress responses. Ann holds a B.A. degree in Biology from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. degree in Genetics from Yale University. She gained further research training in protein biochemistry and structural biology as a postdoctoral fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research at Rutgers University. She was hired at OU in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. She has been recognized with a Cottrell Scholar Award (1999, Research Corporation), Irene Rothbaum Award for Outstanding Assistant Professor (2001, College of Arts and Sciences), Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship (2001-2008), and a Joseph A. Brandt Professorship (2008-2015). In addition to significant service roles at the departmental, college, and university level, West has served on numerous NSF and NIH grant review panels as well as executive advisory committees.
