Bio:

Dr. Wah Chiu is the Alvin Romansky Professor of Biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a leading investigator in the structural determination of biological nanomachines using electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM). His laboratory has pioneered various experimental and computational methods in biological electron cryomicroscopy. He has determined cryoEM structures of biological bundle, ion channel, viruses and chaperonin at unprecedented resolutions.

He is the founding director of two NIH supported research Centers: National Center for Macromolecular Imaging (http://ncmi.bcm.edu/) and Center for Protein Folding Machinery (http://proteinfoldingcenter.org). Both Centers involve investigators from diverse disciplines in biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, engineering and computing from different institutions and industries across the U.S. He is the founding director of the Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine (http://scbmb.bcm.edu) with faculty mentors from multiple academic institutions in the Greater Houston Area to train future scientists at the interface between biomedicine and physical, chemical, mathematical, computational and engineering sciences.