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Professor Collin M. Stultz named 2007 recipient of
the Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Award
For Immediate Release
TUESDAY, 6 February 2007
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 02.06.2007
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named
Collin M. Stultz, Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
and Technology, to receive the 2007 Jonathan Allen
Junior Faculty Award. The Allen Award recognizes Professor
Stultz's achievements in the field of computational
biophysics and provides support for his research initiatives.
Professor Stultz is the first recipient of the award.
Professor Stultz leads the RLE Computational Biophysics
Group, which is focused on understanding conformational
changes in biomolecules that play an important role
in common human diseases. The group uses an interdisciplinary
approach that combines computational modeling with
biochemical experiments to make connections between
conformational changes in macromolecules and disease
progression.
Professor Stultz received the AB from Harvard College
in 1988, and the MD from Harvard Medical School as
well as a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard in 1997. An
alumnus of the Harvard-MIT program in Health Sciences
and Technology (HST), Professor Stultz is on the faculty
of both HST and MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science. He is a member of the American
Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and
the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology. Among his honors are being a recipient of
the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical
Sciences and the James Tolbert Shipley Prize.
Jeffrey H.
Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton Professor of
Electrical Engineering and RLE Director, said, "Professor
Stultz is part of the vanguard of researchers who are
both physicians and engineers. He is using the interdisciplinary
approaches that this makes possible to unlock fundamental
questions about human biology and to apply that new
understanding to important issues related to health
and disease. I am delighted that the Allen Award can
provide additional support at an especially exciting
point in Professor's Stultz's MIT faculty career."
The award is named in honor of Jonathan Allen, Professor
of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Allen was
the sixth Director RLE, and served in that capacity
until his death in 2000.
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