ANDO LAB at CORNELL

Understanding Enzymes to Understand Life

Understanding Enzymes to Understand Life

Nozomi Ando - Selected Info

Faculty Appointments
  • Graduate Faculty, Field of Physics, Cornell University, 1/2022-present
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, 7/2021-present.
  • Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), Cornell University, 8/2019-present.
  • Chemical Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program, Cornell University, 5/2019-present.
  • Graduate Faculty, Field of Biophysics, Cornell University, 2/2019-present.
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, 7/2018-2021.
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University, 7/2014-6/2018.
    • Awards & Honors
  • Schmidt Polymath Award, 2025.
  • Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award, ASBMB, 2024.
  • Editor, Methods in Enzymology Vol. 688
  • Protein Society Young Investigator Award, 2022.
  • Director, 2022 Erice International School of Crystallography.
  • Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Symposium, 2020 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting.
  • NSF CAREER Award (MCB-1942668)
  • Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award, American Crystallographic Association, 2020. [ Award Talk ]
  • NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35GM124847).
  • Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Symposium, 2017 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting.
  • NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00GM100008).
  • NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32GM090486).
    • Teaching
  • CHEM 2080: General Chemistry I, Cornell University CCB, Fall 2023.
  • CHEM 2070: General Chemistry I, Cornell University CCB, Fall 2022.
  • CHEM 7880: Structural Methods in Biochemistry, Cornell University CCB, Spring 2019-2023.
  • CHEM 2870: Physical Chemistry I, Cornell University CCB, Fall 2018, 2020.
  • CHM 515: Biophysical Chemistry I, Princeton University Chemistry, Fall 2015, 2016, 2017.
  • CHM 541: Chemical Biology II, Princeton University Chemistry, Spring 2016..
  • CHM 516: Biophysical Chemistry II, Princeton University Chemistry, Spring 2015, 2017, 2018.
  • BioSAXS Essentials, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, 2011-2014.
  • Third Bioinorganic Training Workshop, Penn State Chemistry, 2014.
  • 7.0344: Taking snapshots of protein complexes in action, MIT Biology, Spring 2011.
    • Funding & Resources
  • Schmidt Polymath Award, 2025.
  • Astera Institute Gift, 2025.
  • 2030 Fast Grant, 10/01/2023-06/30/2024.
  • New Frontier Grant, 07/01/2023-06/30/2025.
  • NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35GM124847), 08/01/2022-07/31/2027.
  • CCMR Seed Grant (NSF DMR-1719875), 09/01/2020-08/31/2022.
  • NSF CAREER Award (MCB-1942668), 01/01/2020-12/31/2024.
  • NSF Collaborative Research (CBET-1929256; collaborator), 09/15/2019-08/31/2022.
  • DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Gene Synthesis Proposal 504691, 09/10/2019-09/09/2022.
  • DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Gene Synthesis Proposal 504663, 2/20/2019-2/19/2022.
  • NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35GM124847), 08/01/2020-07/31/2024.
  • NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00GM100008), 08/01/2017-07/31/2022.
  • NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32GM090486), 01/01/2010 -12/31/2011.
    • Awards to Mentees
  • Shiva Dahagam, ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry (2024)
  • Robert Miller,Bauer Scholarship Award (2024)
  • Jaidyn Duhon, Cornell x Ithaca College UG Symposium Poster Prize (2024)
  • Raley Schweinfurth, NSF GRFP Honorable Mention (2024)
  • Mike Patterson, Provost Diversity Fellowship (2024).
  • Chloe Holod, Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (2023-2025)
  • Darren Xu, Tunis Wentink Award (2023)
  • Michael Patterson, Bauer Scholarship Award (2023)
  • Gabrielle Illava, CHESS Best Scientific Poster Award (2023)
  • Pasa Suksmith, Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize (2023)
  • Sarah Zhang, George C. Caldwell Award (2023)
  • Sarah Zhang & Pasa Suksmith, NERM ACS Outstanding Poster Prize (2022).
  • Audrey Burnim, ACA Etter Student Lecture Award (2022).
  • Audrey Burnim, Bauer Scholarship Award (2022).
  • Darren Xu, Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize (2022).
  • Neti Bhatt, Douglas Fitchen Memorial Award (2022).
  • Peiwen Shi, ACS Award in Physical Chemistry (2022).
  • Cisco Espinosa, Caldwell Award (2022).
  • Sarah Zhang, The J. Emery Morris Fellowship (2022).
  • Amanda Byer, NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32GM140763), “Structural studies of alternating-site reactivity in nitrogenase-like oxidoreductases,” (04/15/2021-04/14/2024).
  • William Thomas, CHESS Student Paper Award (2020).
  • Gabrielle Illava, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2018-2021).
  • Gabrielle Illava, Dean’s Excellence Graduate Diversity Fellowship (2018).
  • William Thomas, ACA Etter Student Lecture Award (2018).
  • Maxwell Watkins, ACA Etter Student Lecture Award (2018).
  • Frederick P. Brooks, Princeton Physical Chemistry Prize (2018).
  • Susannah Shoemaker, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2017).
  • Isao Anzai, Honorable Mention for the Global Health Program Senior Thesis Prize (2017).
  • Isao Anzai, Outstanding Thesis Award, Princeton Department of Molecular Biology (2017).
  • Isao Anzai, Highest Honors, Princeton Department of Molecular Biology (2017).
  • Frederick P. Brooks, Bershadsky Family Summer Research Funds (2017).
  • Frederick P. Brooks, William Foster Memorial Prize in Chemistry (2017).
  • William Thomas, Pickering Teaching Award (2017).
  • William Thomas, Nat C. Robertston Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry (2016).
  • Stephen Meisburger, NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32GM117757), “Allosteric motions of B12 enzymes,” (09/26/2016-09/25/2018).
  • Katherine Davis, Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Award, “Directing metalloenzyme movies,” (07/01/2015-06/30/2018).
  • Emily Adler, Fred Fox Fund (2015).
  • Brian Chang, Fred Fox Fund (2015).
  • Isao Anzai, Fred Fox Fund (2015).