David W. Wood

David W. Wood's work focuses on protein engineering and purification methods, particularly using 'inteins' (naturally occurring protein segments that can splice themselves in and out) to create self-cleaving tags that simplify the purification of recombinant proteins made in bacterial or mammalian cell cultures. This research supports the manufacturing of therapeutic proteins and biosensors by developing more efficient, lower-cost purification techniques that avoid traditional chromatography steps.

Publication output was higher and more variable earlier in the decade (2017-2020) but has slowed to a steady lower rate of a few papers per year since 2021.

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