August 1, 2005

CCGS faculty member Brian Kuhlman was recently awarded a prestigious award from the W.M. Keck Foundation, one the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations. Kuhlman, who has been an Assistant Professor in Biochemistry & Biophysics since 2002, received a $1 million grant as part of the Keck Foundation’s Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research Program. This program was established in 1999 to give the nation's most promising young scientists the resources they need to pursue potentially breakthrough research projects in biomedicine. The program awards these grants to each of five junior faculty investigators at leading research universities and institutions annually. Kuhlman plans to use the grant to create new methods for de novo design of protein-protein interactions. His group will develop and experimentally test computer-based methods for designing antibody-like proteins that specifically interact with designated target proteins.

Additional information can be found on Kuhlman's CCGS faculty page.