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Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Chair, Structural Biology Department

Joseph Simone Endowed Chair in Basic Research

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Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD

Structural Biology

MS 311, Room D1024E

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

MemphisTN 38105-3678

Education

BS - University of Ioannina, Greece

PhD - Institut Curie, Paris, France

Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Honors & Awards

  • 2020 Biophysical Society Fellow Award
  • 2017  The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences
  • 2017  Henry A. Lardy Distinguished Lecturer
  • 2013  Stig Sunner Young Investigator Award
  • 2011  Biophysical Society Michael and Kate Bárány Young Investigator Award
  • 2011  New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Young Investigator Award
  • 2010  Protein Society Young Investigator Award

Research Interests

  • Structural biology approaches, including high-resolution NMR spectroscopy  
  • Protein kinases, such as the Bcr-Abl causing chronic myelogenous leukemia
  • Molecular chaperones, such as the Hsp90 and Hsp70/40 families involved in cancer
  • The injectisome and the flagellum machineries in pathogenic bacteria involved in infectious diseases
  • Membrane transporter proteins in pathogenic bacteria 

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