Ranked among the top public universities in the nation, Miami University was the first institution to purchase an 850 MHz NMR in the United States.  The instrument went online in 2007.  The increased sensitivity and resolution offered by this system allows the advanced studies of protein structures and complexes, measurement of ligand binding thermodynamics as well as metabonomic studies of biofluids. It is mainly used by Dr. Michael Kennedy, the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology, and his research lab.  Dr. Kennedy's research focuses primarily on protein structure/function investigations in mechanistic studies of human disease and the application of NMR-based metabonomics to the study of human diseases. (excerpt from news release)