Prof. Walter Englander University of Pennsylvania, USA

Walter Englander received his BS in physics and maths at the University of Maryland. He then went on to receive a MS and a PhD in Biophysics at the University of Pittsburgh. Having been previously Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania, he is now Jacob Gershon-Cohen... read moreProfessor of Medical Science. Dr. Englander is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, an honorary fellow of the Biophysical Society and of the AAAS. Dr. Englander is the world's leading authority on the hydrogen exchange of proteins and nucleic acids. Methods newly devised in Dr. Englander's laboratory are being used by his group and others to study and explain how proteins fold.