Dr. Andrew Bohm This is Me

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1. 1. Boston Biomedical Research Institute

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   Published on: 9/4/2007   Last Visited: 9/4/2007

   Andrew Bohm, Ph.D.

2. 2. The Student Underground

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   Published on: 7/10/2002   Last Visited: 4/25/2006

   Dr. Andrew Bohm is a lead researcher at Boston Biomedical Research Institute, whose team published in Nature magazine the 3-D structure of the anthrax edema protein last January. Bohn dismisses the criticism leveled at biologists working with possibly offensive organisms: "While its always possible that some nefarious individual on the outskirts of mainstream science might read our paper in search of a way to improve anthrax, you need to weigh their chances of success (the toxin is a machine that has been engineered by millions of years of evolution) against the chance that well educated, well funded people in the mainstream of science will be able to break the thing (by designing a drug against it). I think the short answer is that virtually all complex systems are much easier to break than to improve. "
   
   Bohm said, "If you open the hood of your car, almost anything you disconnect will have a deleterious effect on its performance.
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   Bohm dismisses this fear as throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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   Published on: 1/24/2002   Last Visited: 2/2/2002

   One of the researchers, Andrew Bohm, agreed: "Now that we have a picture of all the atoms and how they're configured, we're in a much better position to stop it [the toxin] from working."
   
   Bohm, a biophysicist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, collaborated with Wei-Jen Tang, at the University of Chicago, and others. Their results were published today in Nature.
   
   Anthrax is of enormous interest right now because it was the disease agent used in recent bioterror attacks via the U.S. mail. Letters containing anthrax powders were sent to U.S. senators and broadcast media, and to the supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer. Some of the powders leaked out during mail processing, endangering the lives of postal workers. In all, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 people were infected - 11 of them via inhalation - and five died.