Senior Research Personnel
Keith Moffat
Deputy Provost for Research
5801 S. Ellis Avenue, Rm. 501
Chicago, IL 60637
Ph: 773-702-0344
Fax: 773-702-9595
moffat@cars.uchicago.edu
Keith
Moffat, the Louis Block Professor in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
and a founding member of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the
University, is the University's Deputy Provost for Research.
Moffat oversees the Office of University Research Administration, all issues related to Human Subjects Research and Conflicts of Interest, the Media Initiatives Group, and the Council on Research Infrastructure. In addition he assists the University Provost with academic, personnel and administrative issues and serves on a newly created Science Council, which will set priorities and develop strategies for scientific research at the University and at Argonne National Laboratory.
Moffat graduated with first-class honors in physics from the University of Edinburgh and obtained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in biophysics, studying at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Before coming to Chicago in 1990, Moffat was a faculty member at Cornell University, where he developed MacCHESS, among the world's first synchrotron facilities to serve structural biologists.
He has pioneered the application of synchrotron radiation to time-resolved biological crystallography, with the goal of understanding the short-lived structural changes that accompany all chemical and biochemical reactions.
At the University, Moffat heads BioCARS, the structural biology component of the interdisciplinary Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, which he directed from 1993 to 2000.
BioCARS, funded by the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health, is an international research facility serving structural biologists from the United States, Australia, Canada and Europe.
Moffat, a former Guggenheim Fellow, currently holds a MERIT Award from the NIH. He serves on the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory; on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Light Source.
