TribLIVE

Home

News

Sports

Business

A&E

Lifestyles

Opinion

Obituaries

Photos

Things to Do

Shop Trib Store!

Newspapers

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Greensburg Tribune-Review

Valley News Dispatch

Valley Independent

Daily Courier

Leader Times

Blairsville Dispatch

McKeesport Daily News

Trib P.M.

Weekly Newspapers

Magazines

PA Caregiver

Wedding Essentials

Yourtown

YourCarlynton

YourCranberry

YourFoxChapel

YourMonroeville

YourMoonTwp

YourMurrysville

YourNorthHills

YourNorwin

YourPennHills

YourPennTrafford

YourPlum

YourSewickley

YourSouthHills

YourTwinBoros

Find your town

Market Place

TribLIVE Classifieds

HotJobs by Monster

Autos Search

Zillow / Homes

Apartments Search

Sheriff Sales

BurghMenus.com

Coupons

Latest News:
Bloomfield house fire injured two

Bloomfield house fire injured two

updated 12:30 pm

Apple tries to avoid Motorola’s mistakes in China

updated 12:30 pm

Cease-fire unlikely in Libya’s standoff

updated 12:30 pm

Distressed towns battle vacancies

updated 12:30 pm

Controller candidates set sights on efficiency

updated 12:30 pm

Dogs put on show in Western Pa. Kennel club event

updated 12:30 pm

Firefighter, corrections officer arrested in assault

updated 12:30 pm

UConn beats Kentucky, advances to NCAA title game

updated 12:30 pm

I-579 work to close ramps weeknights

updated 12:30 pm

Parkway East lanes will be restricted

updated 12:30 pm

Help Desk

Subscribe to us

Subscriber Services

Contact Us

Commercial Printing

Advertise with Trib Total Media

Print advertising

Classified ads

Help Wanted ads

Web site advertising

TribAdDesk.com

Trib Total Media Partners

Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Penguins

KQV Radio

WPXI Television

TribLIVE.com

Web Search by YAHOO!

TribLIVE.com Web Search by YAHOO!

Classifieds

Autos

Homes

Jobs

TribStore

Coupons

BurghMenus

Home

News

Sports

A & E

Lifestyles

Business

Opinion

Things to do

Your Town

Photos

Pittsburgh / Allegheny Regional Westmoreland Fayette State Politics Nation World Columnists Most Read Articles

View all stories by date

Hospital Readmissions

Wounded Warriors

Marcellus Shale

Killing Pittsburghers

Middle East reports

All Special Reports
All Multimedia

All Blogs

News

Pittsburgh / Allegheny

Regional

Westmoreland

Fayette

State

Election

Nation

World

Columnists

Most Read Articles

Education

Lottery

Health News

Transportation

Middle East Reports

Photo Galleries

All Stories

Sports

Business

Opinion & Commentary

A & E

Lifestyles

Obituaries

Staff Blogs

About Us

Help Desk

Mobile Edition

Contact Us

Frank L. Craig,
Editor

Robert Fryer, Managing Editor

James J. Cuddy, Jr, Managing Editor

Steve Adams, Multimedia Editor

Newspapers in Education

Customized RSS News Feeds

Steelers

Sports

News

Opinion

... More Feeds

Larger text Smaller text

Newsmaker: Stephanie Tristram-Nagle

Photos

Stephanie Tristram-Nagle

About the writer

Bill Zlatos is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7828 or via e-mail.

Ways to get us

Be a Facebook fan
Follow us on Twitter
E-mail Newsletters
On your mobile

By Bill Zlatos
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Residence: Point Breeze

Family: Husband, John Nagle; two daughters, Julia Nagle, 26, of Berkeley, Calif., and Lara Nagle, 23, of Squirrel Hill

Occupation: Research professor with the Biological Physics Initiative in Carnegie Mellon University's physics department

Education: Bachelor's degree in humanities from Douglass College in New Brunswick, N.J.; postgraduate work in the sciences from the University of Massachusetts at Boston; and a doctorate in comparative biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley

Background: Tristram-Nagle has taught and done research at Carnegie Mellon since 1982. She became a full research professor in 2008. Her research concerns lipid membranes, the underlying structure of all cell membranes. Her work might lead to advances in the treatment of AIDS.

Noteworthy: Tristram-Nagle has won the third annual Charles E. Kaufman Award by The Pittsburgh Foundation for her groundbreaking research in lipid membranes and HIV peptides. She is donating her $50,000 prize to the university to support her team's research.

Quote: "If you remove the cholesterol from the membrane of the HIV virus particle, then it's no longer able to infect the T-cell, one of the immune cells. That's quite important. If you could remove all the cholesterol from all of the HIV virus particles, or change the interaction of cholesterol with HIV proteins, then the HIV virus could not cause AIDS because it wouldn't be able to infect the cells."

More Pittsburgh, Allegheny headlines

Bloomfield house fire injured two

Apple tries to avoid Motorola's mistakes in China

Cease-fire unlikely in Libya's standoff

Distressed towns battle vacancies

Controller candidates set sights on efficiency

Dogs put on show in Western Pa. Kennel club event

Firefighter, corrections officer arrested in assault

I-579 work to close ramps weeknights

Most Read

Most E-mailed

Latest News

Reproduction or reuse prohibited without written consent from Trib Total Media, Inc.

Click here for advertising information || Advertiser List || About our ads