Anthony Garcia is the Molecular Pharmacology Highlighted Trainee Author for February 2025. 

The MolPharm article that earned him the selection as highlighted Trainee Author is titled “High-throughput screening identifies a novel small-molecule modulator of Hsp70 that selectively enhances ubiquitination and degradation of misfolded neuronal NO synthase” and is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molpha.2024.100008.  

He hopes that his research will be helpful in further dissecting the role of protein chaperones, especially Hsp70, as a potential therapeutic target for protein misfolding diseases; and the compound they identified from this study will be a useful tool to study other functions of Hsp70 as well.