JOACHIM FRANK

     

Joachim Frank

                                                          -AACHAL BURANDE

Joachim Frank (born 12 September 1940) is a German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University, New York City and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) , for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson.He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryot In 1975 Frank was offered a position of Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Laboratories and Research (now Wadsworth Center), New York State Department of Health , where he started working on single-particle approaches in electron microscopy. In 1985 he was appointed Associate and then (1986) Full Professor at the newly formed Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University at Albany, State University of New York. In 1987 and 1994, he went on Sabbaticals in Europe, one to work with Richard Henderson, Laboratory of Molecular Biology Medical Research Council in Cambridge and the other with Kenneth C. Holmes, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. In 1998 Frank was appointed Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Since 2003 he was also lecturer at Columbia University, and he joined Columbia University in 2008 as Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences.
• 2006 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2006 Member of the National Academy of Science.
• 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science of the Franklin Institute
• 2017 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
• 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry