Carver Trust gives $2 million for UI biochemistry chair

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine has given $2 million to establish the Roy J. Carver Chair in Biochemistry.

Charles Brenner, University of Iowa professor and head of biochemistry, will serve as the Roy J. Carver Chair in Biochemistry.

Brenner's laboratory studies the normal functions of tumor suppressor genes, a class of genes that are inactivated in cancer development, and is uncovering links between metabolism and factors that control cellular aging.

The Carver Charitable Trust also gave $2 million to establish a core facilities operational endowment for proteomics in the UI Carver College of Medicine. Proteomics involves the use of mass spectrometry to study proteins. The gift will expand the facility's capability to move into the emerging field of quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics.