Wayne Hendrickson

Wayne A. Hendrickson (born April 25, 1941, New York City) is an American biophysicist and university professor at Columbia University. Dr. Hendrickson is a university professor at Columbia University in the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics . He is also Chief Life Scientist in the Photon Sciences Directorate at Brookhaven National Laboratory and scientific director of the New York Structural Biology Center He obtained a B.A. in biophysics from University of Wisconsin-River Falls . He later received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University with Warner Love .

Hendrickson and his colleagues use biochemistry and x-ray crystallography to study molecular properties in atomic detail with current emphasis on membrane receptors and cellular signaling , on viral proteins and HIV infection , on molecular chaperones and protein folding , and on structural genomics of membrane proteins .

Recognition Hendrickson's honors include the Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , Christian B. Anfinsen Award the Gairdner Foundation International Award , the Harvey Prize , and the thirteenth IUCr Ewald Prize in 2023. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences . On June 2, 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden