Anna Kathryn Mapp (born 1970)[1] is an American chemist and the Edwin Vedejs collegiate professor of Chemistry.
[2] Mapp served as the Director of the Program in Chemical Biology at the University of Michigan until 2019 when she accepted a position as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at the University of Michigan Rackham graduate school.
[7] Mapp's research group employs synthetic tools to study biological systems to understand how genes are regulated.
The group identifies key protein-protein interactions vital for gene activation in yeast (S. cerevisiae).
Their main goal is to develop drugs that can re-wire gene expression in diseased cells while leaving the rest intact.