Membership
How to Join
Faculty affiliation with CLP is based on mutual interest in highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary, entrepreneurial research. Institute affiliation is non-binding, but Institute members are expected to play an active role in Institute programs and activities. A process has been implemented to ensure that faculty are committed to and contribute to collaborative, transdisciplinary research and education.
Faculty Membership
Candidates are required to submit a formal request to the Institute director stating their interest in joining CLP, interdisciplinary research interests, current CLP collaborations and long-term collaborative interests, willingness to participate in CLP faculty responsibilities, and a copy of their current vita.
Once these materials have been reviewed, the candidate is invited to an interview with the director at Silverman Hall.
The decision to accept the request for affiliate membership is made by the CLP Faculty Director.
For more information, please contact:
Sheila Judge
Senior Director, Administration, Research and Education, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
s-judge@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-5868
Meet our faculty.
Collaborating Across Disciplines
Unpacking the mysteries of human proteins and developing new precision medicines requires expertise from many different disciplines—from clinicians and biologists to chemists, engineers, and computer scientists. CLP is a destination for faculty who are deeply interested investigating the human proteome and its impact on human health and disease.
Faculty buzz
CLP is the mothership for bringing the chemists, biologists and engineers together. We are designing new molecules and trying to tackle important problems in neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and cardiovascular problems.
Richard Silverman, PhD
Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor
What happens with physicists, chemists, geneticists, cancer biologists meet? A future without cancer starts to become a reality.
Marcelo G. Bonini, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
CLP creates an environment where great minds unite. Everyone has a unique strength, and combining those strengths is the key to moving the field forward. The brain is very complex. Neurodegenerative diseases are very complex, so we need to approach them from multiple angles.
hande ozdinler, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
CLP helps advance our mission to use chemical biology approaches to discover small molecules that hijack UPS in the cells to degrade more disease-causing proteins, particularly those undruggable proteins.
Xiaoyu Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
CLP provides this rare opportunity for people coming from what otherwise would be disparate fields physics, engineering, biology, chemistry, synthetic chemistry, nanotechnology, who work together, collaborate together, conceive ideas together. Without this melting pot, without this line collaboration and interactions, a lot of these ideas would simply not be conceivable.
vadim backman, PhD
Sachs Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
There’s a difference between basic science and clinical translation. One of the biggest problems for many researchers is covering that divide. An Institute like CLP can provide the expertise that you can get in no other way.
Xiaoyu Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
