Robert Tycko

Robert Tycko is a physical chemist, with special expertise in solid state NMR and other types of magnetic resonance, whose research has addressed a wide range of problems in physical and biological sciences.  He is currently a Senior Investigator in the intramural research program of the NIH, where his lab works on molecular structures of amyloid fibrils and other protein assemblies, on micron-scale magnetic resonance imaging, on structural properties of transient intermediates in protein folding, ligand binding, and aggregation processes, and on new experimental methods for these studies.  In earlier work at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he used solid state NMR methods to characterize fullerenes and alkali fulleride superconductors, and to characterize novel electronic states in semiconductor quantum wells in the fractional quantum Hall regime.