B.Sc. (Hon) in Chemistry, King’s College, University of London, 1985 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brandeis University, Graduate Department of Biochemistry, 1990-93 Membership Committee, The Protein Society, 2008-present Member, Governing Council, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), 2007-present Founding Member, Council for Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2), 2007-present Advisory Board Member, Institute for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, SUNY Stony Brook (2004-present) Co-Chair, 2002 Gordon Research Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry

Biological Chemistry

The Whitty Group studies protein-protein and protein-ligand recognition, with an emphasis on how binding energy from these intermolecular interactions can be utilized to achieve biological function or inhibition. We apply this research in two distinct areas: (i) developing a quantitative, mechanistic understanding of the activation and signaling of growth factor receptors, and (ii) advancing our ability to discover drugs that inhibit protein-protein interactions.