Dr. Nikolay V Dokholyan
G. Thomas Passananti Professor, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Dr. Dokholyan received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1999 at Boston University and completed the postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology as an NIH NRSA Fellow. Dr. Dokholyan joined the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 2002, was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. Dr. Dokholyan has served as the Director of the Center for Computational and Systems Biology and the Graduate Director of the Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics at UNC. Dr. Dokholyan has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and 21 book chapters. In 2014, Dr. Dokholyan was named the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor. In 2018, Dr. Dokholyan moved to Penn State College of Medicine and assumed the position of the G. Thomas Passananti Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pharmacology and the Director of the Center for Translational Systems Research a position. Dr. Dokholyan was elected to be the Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012) and American Association for Advancements in Science (2019).