Wesley Sundquist

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rdf:langString Wesley I. Sundquist (born 1959) is an American biochemist. Sundquist is known for studying the cellular, molecular and structural biology of retroviruses, particularly HIV. He is also known for studying the ESCRT pathway in cell division. Wesley Sundquist was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1959. He grew up in St. Paul Minnesota and Washington, DC. He received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Carleton College in Minnesota in 1981. During his time at Carleton Sundquist served as the coordinator of the Faribault Project, was elected to Sigma Xi and received a National Merit Scholarship (1977-81). Sundquist went on to complete a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Stephen J. Lippard in 1988. Following his PhD, he participated in postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular in Cambridge, England under Sir Aaron Klug. In 1992 Sundquist joined the University of Utah Department of Biochemistry. Sundquist is married to Nola Sundquist, with whom he lives with in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have two adult children, Chris and Emily.