Rachel Hellmann Whitaker, Ph.D.

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

Bemidji State University

ORCID URL: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9335-8647

Areas of Interest: 

age-related dementias: Alzheimer's disease

Biography & Research: 

I am an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Bemidji State University. My Ph.D. is in Biochemistry and my post-doctoral fellowship was in Nucleic Acid Chemistry. My research interests include biochemically characterizing RNAs that may impact Alzheimer's Disease pathogenesis. I have been biochemically characterizing RNA for approximately 15 years. I have published numerous research studies that were focused on RNA structure and how this structure impacts the biology of the RNA in the context of a cell.