The mission of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Penn Medicine is to promote and execute the highest quality research and education in the quantitative understanding of molecular mechanism in biology and medicine.
The Department is home to the largest concentration of expertise in modern quantitative biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology on campus – with faculty who are international leaders in these areas. The overarching goal of the Department is to use these disciplines to understand molecular mechanism in medicine and how to exploit this understanding for therapeutic purposes. Central to this mission is collaboration with other parts of the Penn research community. Ultimately, details of molecular mechanism underlie explanations of all disease processes and therapies. The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics seeks to provide these explanations and to work with other scientists at Penn and elsewhere to exploit them in advancing biomedical research.
The faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics hold many awards and honors. The Department has two members of the National Academy of Sciences (Englander and Dreyfuss), one Fellow of the Royal Society of London (Dutton), two HHMI Investigators (Dreyfuss and Van Duyne), and two members of the Biophysical Society (Wand and Englander). Recent awards include: 2012 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (Lewis), 2012 Protein Society Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award (Lemmon), and 2011 Michael S. Brown New Investigator Award (Black).
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Recent publication: The Shorter Lab published Operational plasticity enables Hsp104 to disaggregate diverse amyloid and nonamyloid clients in the November 9, 2012 issue of Cell.
The June 2012 issue of Trends in Biochemical Sciences featured a cover article by the Black lab. Molecular underpinnings of centromere identity and maintenance by Nikolina Sekulic and Ben Black.
Jim Shorter has won 2012 Michael S. Brown New Investigator Research Award, which recognizes emerging faculty engaged in innovative discoveries
Open Faculty Positions
2012 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania