Pehr Harbury

Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Member, Bio-X
Faculty Fellow, Sarafan ChEM-H
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute

Honors & Awards

Fellow, Damon-Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Foundation (1995)
Terman Fellow, Lucille Packard Charitable Trust (1998)
Young Innovator Award, MIT Technology Review Magazine (1999)
Searle Scholar, Chicago Community Trust (1999)
Young Investigator in the Pharmacological Sciences, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2000)
Schering-Plough Award, ASBMB (2004)
Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2005)
Director's Pioneer Award, NIH (2005)

Professional Education

Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Biological Chemistry (1994)
B.A., Harvard University, Biochemistry (1987)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Scientific breakthroughs often come on the heels of technological advances; advances that expose hidden truths of nature, and provide tools for engineering the world around us. Examples include the telescope (heliocentrism), the Michelson interferometer (relativity) and recombinant DNA (molecular evolution). Our lab explores innovative experimental approaches to problems in molecular biochemistry, focusing on technologies with the potential for broad impact.

2023-24 Courses

Applied Biochemistry
BIOC 200 (Aut)
Biochemistry Mini-Course
BIOC 202 (Aut)
Biological Macromolecules
BIOC 241, BIOE 241, BIOPHYS 241, SBIO 241 (Aut)
Development of Thesis Research
BIOC 350 (Aut)
Frontiers in Biological Research
BIOC 215, DBIO 215, GENE 215 (Aut, Win, Spr)

Independent Studies
- Directed Reading in Biochemistry
  BIOC 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading in Biophysics
  BIOPHYS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Graduate Research
  BIOPHYS 300 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Graduate Research and Special Advanced Work
  BIOC 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Medical Scholars Research
  BIOC 370 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Research
  PHYSICS 490 (Win)
- The Teaching of Biochemistry
  BIOC 221 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Undergraduate Research
  BIOC 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)

Prior Year Courses

Graduate and Fellowship Programs

Biochemistry (Phd Program)
Biophysics (Phd Program)
Molecular and Genetic Medicine (Fellowship Program)

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