David A. Agard is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. He earned his B.S. in molecular biochemistry and biophysics from Yale University and his Ph.D. in biological chemistry from California Institute of Technology. His research is focused on understanding the basic principles of macromolecular structure and function. He is a scientific director of the Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology, and Quantitative Biomedical Research and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator between 1986-2019.

In July 2022, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced that Agard would serve on the founding scientific leadership team of the newly created Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging, a research center devoted to developing next-generation imaging technologies that enable “broad, full-scale views of biological systems.”^[3]

Awards

• Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA, 2007)^[4]
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA, 2009)^[5]
• Bijvoet Medal of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research of Utrecht University (Netherlands, 2018)^[6]
• The Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society (2021)^[7]
• Distinguished Scientist Award of the Microscopy Society of America (2021)^[8]

References

External links

• UCSF Bio
• His Howard Hughes Medical Institute bio Archived May 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
• Agard Lab website
• David Agard online seminar: Super-Resolution: Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) Archived March 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
• David Agard online seminar: Deconvolution Microscopy Archived July 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine