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10 Facts About Donald Engelman

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Donald Max Engelman was born on 1941 and is Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Yale University.

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Donald Engelman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the National Institutes of Health, and has been a Guggenheim fellow.

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Donald Engelman served as the editor of the Annual Review of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry.

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Donald Engelman is involved in the creation of new cancer drugs and treatments.

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For example, Engelman is involved in research to use peptides to aid in destroying tumors.

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Donald Engelman has served as Director of Biological Sciences at Yale, an advisor to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Donald Engelman served as Acting Dean of Yale College in 1991.

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Donald Engelman is a graduate of Reed College receiving his degree in physics.

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Donald Engelman directs the Donald Engelman Laboratory at Yale focused on the biophysics of biological membranes.

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Donald Engelman's group is best known for elucidating the mechanism of pH Low Insertion Peptide to form trans-membrane helices.