Dr. Nikolay Dokholyan received his PhD in Physics from Boston University in 1999 and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. His research focuses on biophysics, particularly in the areas of protein folding, design, and evolution. Dr. Dokholyan joined the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 2002, achieving Full Professor status by 2011. He is currently the G. Thomas Passananti Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Systems Biology at Penn State College of Medicine. He has published extensively, with 180 review articles and 16 book chapters, and has received several honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013. His recent work involves developing methodologies to understand and engineer molecular structure and function and applying these methods to understand the etiologies of human diseases and develop therapeutic strategies.