Stephen G Sligar’s research centers on understanding the structure and mechanistic function of metalloenzymes, membrane bound receptors and transporters as well as investigations in blood coagulation and amyloid proteins and their corresponding human disease states.

Dr Sligar received his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1975.  He served on the faculty in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and returned to the University of Illinois in 1982 where he was the IC Gunsalus Professor of Biochemistry.  He now holds the University of Illinois Swanlund Endowed Chair and is Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology.  He is also a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and the College of Medicine.  D. Sligar holds affiliate appointments in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute for Genomic Biology and The Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory on the Illinois campus.  He is a Fellow of the Biophysical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Awards include a Fulbright Research Scholarship, Senior Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, an NIH Merit Award and the Bert L and Kuggie Vallee Visiting Professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford where he was a Fellow of Queens College.  He is also a Fellow in the Jerome Karle Nobel Laureate World Innovation Foundation.  Dr Sligar's research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Human Frontiers Program.

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