PhD
Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Oliver Smithies Investigator
Co-Director, UNC Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program
UNC-Chapel Hill
Molecular Therapeutics
Area of Interest
The focus of my laboratory is the development and application of computational methods for protein design. We are testing our software on a variety of design problems including the creation of novel protein-protein interactions and protein switches. In several cases, the proteins we are engineering will be useful for studying cancer and potentially treating cancer.
Awards and Honors
- Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2025
- W.M. Keck Foundation Young Investigator in Medical Sciences, 2005-2010
- AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 2004
- Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, 2004
- Searle Scholar, 2004-2007
- Beckman Young Investigator, 2004-2007
- Sloan Research Fellow, 2004
- Damon Runyon/Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2002
- Stony Brook President’s award for excellence in research by a graduate student, 1998
- Stony Brook President’s award for excellence in teaching by a graduate student, 1995
