• Amanda Awerle

    Scientist

    Biologics R&D, Chesterfield, Missouri

    I love learning. From whatever is on NPR in the morning car ride to work to whatever new ideas I’m introduced to at work to whatever class I am taking after work and to whatever non-fiction book I am reading when I get home, I basically spend the entire day trying to learn new things.

    While I love exercising my mind, I also enjoy exercising my body. I make sure to include physical exercise in my day, usually in the form of pilates, yoga, strength training, cardio, biking, or some kind of team sport.

    Key Areas of Research

    The key focus of my group is to understand the degradation mechansims of all the proteins we work on  and to use analytical methods to test for each possible degradation product.

    Projects

    Most of the work I have done lately has been on a vaccine against meningitis.

    Professional Affiliations

    American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

    Education

    I have a BS degree in Biology, and  I am in the process of getting a MS degree in Biochemistry. 

    I have been toying with the idea of going to law school or pharmacy school while still working full-time at Pfizer.

    Awards

    I have received several Individual Performance Awards while working at Pfizer.

    In college, I received numerous scholarships, including Bright Flight, Women in Engineering scholarship, MU Curator's scholarship, Daimer Chrysler scholarship, and the Walter Reuther Essay award scholarship.

    Published Articles

    Disulfide Driven Interdomain Interactions in the IgG Sub-family of Monoclonal Antibodies (pending)

    Favorite Quote

    "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us." -Neil deGrasse Tyson.

    "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - William Lawrence Bragg.

    "The important thing is never to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein.

    “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." - Isaac Newton.