Eric Gouaux

American biochemist and biophysicist

Eric Gouaux is an American biochemist and biophysicist who holds the Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Term Chair at the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University.2

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Companies

Early life and education

  • 1981 to 1982Montana State University3 4
  • 1982 to 1984Harvard University Bachelor of Arts3 5
  • 1984 to 1989Harvard University Doctor of Philosophy3 6
  • 1989 to 1990Harvard University postdoctoral research3 7
  • 1990 to 1992Massachusetts Institute of Technology postdoctoral research3 8

Education

Gouaux studied chemistry at Harvard University, from which he received both his B.A. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1989 with William Lipscomb. He remained in Cambridge as a postdoctoral fellow, first at Harvard and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Academic career

Gouaux joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1993. Three years later, he moved to Columbia University, where he became a full professor in 2001. He moved to the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University in 2005 and was appointed the Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research in 2015.

Gouaux was a recipient of the Searle Scholars Program award in 1994 and became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2000. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2010 and the United States National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

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Career

Occupation: biophysicist, biochemist.17

Awards

  • 2013Annual Review Prize Lecture18 20
  • 2007Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science18 19