Joseph Orgel
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Biography
Joseph Orgel is a British American Scientist based at the Illinois Institute of Technology with past and present appointments in Biology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Applied Health Sciences at UIC as Visiting Faculty. His research interests are concerned with fundamental structural biochemistry problems that have direct links to the understanding and treatment of disease. He leads investigations of brain pathological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Traumatic Brain Injury in collaboration with the US Army and connective tissue conditions including heart disease and arthritis at the National Institutes of Health Biotechnology Research Resource, BioCAT, as Associate Director. He is an awardee of the United States National Science Foundation's CAREER Award. He has been Biochemistry Section Editor of the Public Library of Science Journal, PloS ONE since 2008 and joined the board of Directors of the National Museum of Health and Medicine (Chicago) in December of 2012.