Nikolay Dokholyan, PhD profile page

Dr. Dokholyan received his PhD in Physics in 1999 at Boston University and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology as an NIH NRSA Fellow. Dr. Dokholyan joined the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 2002 and was promoted to (Full) Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor in 2011. Dr. Dokholyan has served as the Director of the Center for Computational and Systems Biology and the Graduate Director of the Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics at UNC. Dr. Dokholyan has published over 370 peer-reviewed articles and 21 book chapters. In 2018, Dr. Dokholyan moved to Penn State College of Medicine and assumed the position of the G. Thomas Passananti Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pharmacology. Dr. Dokholyan is the Editor-in-Chief of Proteins. Dr. Dokholyan was elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2022). Dr. Dokholyan joined Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute as an Associate Director in 2022. In 2024, Dr. Dokholyan joined the Editorial Board of PNAS Nexus. In 2025, Dr. Dokholyan moved to the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Neurology. He leads the Center for Health Intelligence.