Monika Raj, a professor of chemistry at Emory University, has received a three-year grant worth $850,000 from the W. M. Keck Foundation to advance a strategy for repair- ing malfunctioning proteins linked to diseases such as cancer and inherited disorders. The W.M. Keck Foundation, established in 1954, supports highrisk, high-reward research in science, engineering, and medicine nationwide. Raj’s project, Targeted Protein Restoration Technology (PRT), uses customizable chemical “molecular patches” to restore defective proteins at the protein level. By combining organic chemistry with artificial intelligence tools, her team aims to design programmable, reversible solutions that complement traditional gene-editing approaches. Raj was named a 2023 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences.