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Curriculum Vitae

DAVID EISENBERG

Education

Harvard College,
Cambridge, MA
A. B 1961 Biochemical Sciences
(John Edsall)
Oxford University,
Oxford, England
D. Phil. 1964 Theoretical Chemistry
(Charles Coulson)

Professional Experience

Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ
Postdoc 1964-1966 Water, H-bonding
(Walter Kauzmann)
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA
Postdoc 1966-1969 Structural Biology
(Richard Dickerson)
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA
Asst. Professor-
Professor
1969-present Chemistry & Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA
Director 1993-present UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator 2001-present  

Awards

L.J. Henderson Prize, 1961; Harvard College Honorary Scholarships, 1958-1960; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi; Rhodes Scholarship, 1961-1964; Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1969-1971; USPHS Career Development Award, 1972-1977; UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 1975; McCoy Award of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for innovative research, 1982 (with R.E. Dickerson); Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985; UCLA Faculty Research Lectureship, 1989; National Academy of Sciences, 1989; American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1991; Pierce Award of the Immunotoxin Society, 1992; Protein Society Stein & Moore Award, 1996; American Chemical Society Repligen Award in Molecular Biology, 1998; Fellow, Biophysical Society, 1999; Amgen Award of the Protein Society, 2000; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001; Institute of Medicine, 2002; American Philosophical Society, 2003; UCLA Seaborg Medal, 2004; Harvard Westheimer Medal, 2005.

Lectureships

Lawrence J. Onclay Lectureship, 1986 (University of Michigan); Henry Bull Lectureship, 1987 (University of Iowa); The Pfizer Lectureship, 1988 (Harvard); Faculty Research Lectureship, 1989 (UCLA); Karling Lecture, 1990 (Purdue); John T. Edsall Lectureship, 1992 (Harvard); University Lecturer, 1996 (UTSW, Dallas); Keynote address: Program in Mathematics & Molecular Biology, 1995 (Santa Fe); FMC Lectureship (Princeton), 1996; Biophysical Society National Lecture, 1997; National Lecturer, Diphtheria Toxin and Domain Swapping: A Strange Biophysical Tail, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 1997 (New Orleans); NIH Director's Seminar, "Protein-protein interactions", 1998 (Bethesda, MD); 16th Annual Hans Neurath Lecture, “Protein-Protein Interactions”, 1999 (University of Washington, Seattle, WA.); Inaugural Sunesis Lecture: "From Genome Sequences to Protein Functions", 2000 (UC Berkeley); Keynote lecture: World Congress of Bioinformatics, 2001 (Tokyo, Japan); Keynote address, Keystone Conference on Genomics and Structural Biology, 2002; Keynote address, Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallographic Workshop, 2002; Keynote address at Maps, Sequences, and Genomes, a symposium in honor of Michael Waterman's 60th birthday, USC, 2002 (Los Angeles); Opening Keynote, Gordon Research Conference on Proteins, 2002 (New Hampshire); Opening plenary lecture: 17th Symposium of the Protein Society, 2002 (Boston, MA); Keynote address, Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics, 2004; Opening lecture, Royal Society Discussion on Bioinformatics, 2005 (London, UK); Seminar, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 2005 (Cambridge UK); Keynote lecture, Faltertag 2005, (Wittenburg, Germany); Keynote, Kech Distinguished Scholars Retreat, 2005 (Los Angeles); Keynote address, 2005 (International Union of Crystallography XX, Florence, Italy); Keynote address: SPINE (Structural Genomics in Europe), 2005 (Montecatini Termi, Italy); Inaugural Robert L. Davis Lecture, 2005 (University of Arizona); The Cynthia Ann Chan Lecture, UC Berkeley: Protein Aggregation Diseases, 2006 (Berkeley, CA).

Selected Professional Activities

President, Protein Society, 1987-1989; Editor, Advances in Protein Chemistry, 1988-present; Editorial Advisory Board, Current Opinion in Biology, 1989-present; Editorial Consultant, Protein Science, 1991-1997; Guest Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1993; University of Washington, NSF Center for Molecular Biotechnology, Advisory Committee, 1994-1998; Chair, Protein Data Bank Advisory Board, 1995-1999; Brookhaven National Lab, Biology Dept., Advisory Committee, 1996-1998; National Academy of Sciences, Class II Member-at-Large, Class Membership Committee, 1996-1998; National Research Council, Board of Biology, 1995-1998; IUPAC, Commission of Biophysical Chemistry, Associate Member, 1996-1999; Hereditary Disease Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board, 1996-present; National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, 1998-2001; Chair, NIH Ad hoc Committee on Structural Genomics, 1998; Protein Society Long Range Planning Committee, 1997-1999, Chair 1998; Chair, NIH NIGMS Ad Hoc Committee on Structural Genomics, 1998; Scientific Advisory Committee, European Molecular Biology Lab, 2000-2005; Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Systems Biology, 2000-Present; Chair, Review of European Bioinformatics Institute, 2003; National Academy of Sciences: Organizing Chair, NAS Biophysics Section, 2001-2004; Member, NAS Committee on Community Standards for Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials, 2002. Advisory Committee, Swiss National Science Foundation Center of Excellence in Structural Biology, 2002-2007; LBL Physical Biosciences Director's Division Review, May, 2003; Chair, Review of European Bioinformatics Institute, 2003; Petra Synchrotron Review Committee, 2004; Review Panel: Centre for Protein Engineering, LMB, Cambridge, UK, 2004. SAB, Harvard University Bauer Center, 2005-Present; SAB, BioDesign Institute, Arizona State University, 2006-9

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