November, 2010

On November 16, Britton Chance died quietly and at peace. Read more about his life and achievements:

New York Times
Washington Post
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania Almanac

September, 2010
Mark Lemmon, Diego Alvarado, and Daryl Klein coauthored a paper, “ErbB2 resembles an autoinhibited invertebrate epidermal growth factor receptor” published in the September 10, 2009 edition of Nature. Read it here.

July 2010
Mark Lemmon is officiall the new Chair of the Department.

Jim Shorter received a Grand Challenges Explorations grant for his project titled “Unleashing Protein Disaggregases to Prevent HIV Infection.” Read more

Mark Lemmon wins the 2009 Stanley N. Cohen Research Award for his work in cellular signaling and for elegantly combining structural and computational biology to cell biology and genetics.

July, 2009
Walter Englander has been named the winner of the 2010 Founders Award of the Biophysical Society "for pioneering the development of hydrogen exchange ('HX') techniques for exploring the stability, interactions and dynamics of macromolecules and their folding." He will receive the Award at the 2010 meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco in Feb 2010.

Kristen Lynch has been appointed Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and joins the Department July 1.