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Kevin Weeks, Ph.D.

Professional Experience

Faculty, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program
Faculty, Integrative Program for Biological & Genome Sciences
Faculty, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics
Faculty, Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Mentor, Medical Scientist M.D.-Ph.D. Training Program
Mentor, Virology Training Program
Member, UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Joined UNC Faculty, 1996
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado, 1992-1995
Ph.D., Yale University, 1992
Fulbright Scholar, Universitaet Goettingen, Germany, 1987
B.A., The College of Wooster, OH, 1986

Honors and Awards

Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK (2014); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012); NIH EUREKA Award (2011-2015); North Carolina Health & Life Sciences Promise for Tomorrow Award (2009); Panelist, Molecular Biochemistry, National Science Foundation (2002-2007); Visiting Scholar, National Institutes of Health – NIEHS (2002); NSF Career Award (2000-2005); Searle Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences (1998-2001); Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation (1997); Fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (1992-95); Wolfgang Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation in Chemistry, Yale University (1992); Fulbright Scholar, Universitaet Goettingen, Germany (1986-87); Phi Beta Kappa, B.A. with Honors, Departmental Honors in Chemistry, The College of Wooster (1986)

Dr. Kevin Weeks

Kevin M. Weeks

Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290
Genome Sciences Building 3258
 919-962-7486
 919-962-2388
 weeks@unc.edu