Dr. Rudi Fasan, a distinguished scientist who is taking cues from nature to develop new biologically active molecules that have potential use against cancer and other diseases, joined The University of Texas at Dallas this fall as a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research. CPRIT recruitment grants bring senior faculty with distinguished professional careers and established cancer research programs to Texas from around the country. In addition to being named a CPRIT Scholar, Fasan holds a Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry. “Another component of our research program is to engineer enzymes to carry out chemical reactions that do not exist in nature, which we call ‘new-to-nature’ chemistry. With this latest grant, UT Dallas has received more than $28 million from CPRIT to support cancer studies.