PhD
Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Oliver Smithies Investigator
Co-Director, UNC Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Cell Biology Research Program
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
