Abraham Lenhoff to present Francis Alison Inaugural Lecture

12:02 p.m., Oct. 7, 2014--Abraham Lenhoff, recipient of the University of Delaware's 2014 Francis Alison Faculty Award, will present the Francis Alison Inaugural Lecture at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts.

His topic will be "Who Put the Biomolecular in Chemical Engineering."

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Those planning to attend the lecture are asked to RSVP by Oct. 15 by sending an email to provost-office@udel.edu.

Lenhoff, who is Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is internationally recognized for his expertise in applying the principles of thermodynamics, transport phenomena, biophysics and colloid science to protein separations and phase behavior, especially chromatography and crystallization.  

A member of the UD faculty since 1984, Lenhoff is the principal investigator on a multimillion-dollar Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2000.

The center’s research focuses on membrane protein production and characterization, a field of growing importance in biomolecular engineering research. The project has brought together the efforts of many researchers on campus and helps to provide the core facilities needed for membrane protein production, structural biology and bioimaging research at UD and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.

The Francis Alison Faculty Award is the University's highest competitive faculty honor, established by the Board of Trustees in 1978 to recognize faculty members who best demonstrate the combination of scholarship and teaching exemplified by the Rev. Francis Alison, founder of the institution to which UD traces its roots.