Cameron F. Abrams
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor (by courtesy), Drexel University College of Medicine,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Degrees
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of California--Berkeley, 2000
BS, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1995
Post-doctoral Appointment
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, 2000-2002
Honors and Awards
- NSF CAREER Awardee, 2006
- General Participant, National Academy of Engineering “Frontiers of Engineering” Symposium, 2004
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator 2003-2006
Research Interests
- Molecular Simulations in Biophysics and Materials
- Receptors for Insulin and Growth Factors
- HIV-1 Envelope Structure and Function
Recent Publications
Abrams, C.F.; Vanden-Eijnden, E. Large-scale conformational sampling of proteins using temperature-accelerated molecular dynamics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2010, 107, 4961-4966.
Vashisth, H.; Abrams, C.F. All-atom structural models for complexes of insulin-like growth factors IGF1 and IGF2 with their cognate receptor. J. Mol. Biol. 2010, 400, 645-658.
Vashisth, H.; Abrams, C.F. Docking of insulin to a structurally equilibrated insulin receptor ectodomain. Proteins 2010, 78, 1531-1543 (Cover).