People

  • Wes Sundquist

    Wesley I. Sundquist, Ph.D.

    Leo T. & Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair
    Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
    Department Chair

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Pamela J. Bjorkman, Ph.D.

    David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
    Merkin Institute Professor
    Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

    Caltech

    Research

  • Nels Elde, Ph.D.

    Professor
    Department of Human Genetics
    HHMI Investigator

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Barbie Ganser-Pornillos, Ph.D.

    Research Associate Professor Biochemistry

    Univerity of Utah

    Research

  • Chris Hill, Ph.D.

    Vice Dean of Research
    School of Medicine
    Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Ya-Chi Ho, MD, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor
    Department of Microbial Pathogenesis

    Yale

    Research

  • Tom Hope, Ph.D.

    Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Obstetrics and Gynecology and Biomedical Engineering

    Northwestern University

    Research

  • Janet Iwasa, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Jarrod Johnson, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pathology
    Division of Microbiology and Immunology

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Michael Kay, M.D., Ph.D.

    H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair
    Professor of Biochemistry

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Neil King, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Institute for Protein Design

    University of Washington

    Research

  • Tony Kossiakoff, Ph.D.

    Otho S.A. Sprague Distinguished Service Professor
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    University of Chicago

    Research

  • Jeremy Luban, M.D.

    David J. Freelander Chair in AIDS Research
    Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology

    UMASS Medical School

    Research

  • Walther Mothes, Ph.D.

    Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis

    Yale

    Research

  • Molly Ohainle, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor
    Immunology and Molecular Medicine
    Molecular and Cell Biology

    UC Berkeley

    Research

  • Owen Pornillos, Ph.D.

    Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

    University of Utah

    Research

  • Elizabetta Puglisi, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor
    Department of Structural Biology

    Stanford

    Research

  • Joseph D. Puglisi, Ph.D.

    Jaunch Professor
    Department of Structural Biology

    Stanford

    Research

  • Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D.

    HHMI Investigator
    Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

    UC San Diego

    Research

  • Thomas Schwartz, PH.D.

    Boris Magasanik Professor of Biology

    MIT

    Research

Scientific Advisory Board

  • Katharine J. Bar, M.D.

    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Director, Virology Core, Penn Center for AIDS Research

  • Adam Frost, M.D., Ph.D.

    Principal Investigator
    Altos Labs

  • Stephen P. Goff, Ph.D.

    Higgins Professor of Biochemistry
    Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
    Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
    Columbia University Medical Center

  • Mojgan Naghavi, PhD

    Professor
    Department of Microbiology-Immunology,
    Feinberg School of Medicine,
    Northwestern University

CDA Awardees

  • Jeannette Tenthorey, Ph.D.

    Jay A. Levy Assistant Professor of Virology University of California

  • Paul Whitford

    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
    Northeastern University

  • Andrei A. Korostelev, Ph.D.

    Professor RNA Therapeutics Institute 
    UMass Chan Medical School

  • Kaushik Choudhuri, Ph.D.

    Research Associate Professor
    University of Utah

Previous CDA Awardees

  • Thomas Schwartz

    Boris Magasanik Professor of Biology MIT

  • Tyler Starr

    Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry University of Utah

  • Christopher Barnes

    Assistant Professor Department of Biology Stanford University

  • Iain Clark

    Assistant Professor Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley