Biomimetic Chemistry

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry and Biology at Emory University

EDUCATION:
He received his AB degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his PhD in organic/biological chemistry from Duke University. In addition, he was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship at Columbia University.

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
Dr Lynn received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, and was elected chair of the Gordon Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry. He has served on NIH scientific advisory boards ranging from genetics to bioorganic and natural products and is on the advisory boards for Amyloid: The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders and Current Organic Synthesis. He is currently a HHMI Professor and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The David G Lynn Group at Emory University works to understand the structures and forces that enable supramolecular self-assembly, how chemical information can be stored and translated into new molecular entities, and how the forces of evolution can be harnessed in new structures with new function. Such knowledge offers tremendous promise for discoveries in fields as diverse as drug design and genome engineering, pathogenesis and genome evolution, functional nanoscale materials and the origins of living systems.