Gregory Bowman: Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

Gregory R. Bowman, a pioneer of biophysics and data science, has been named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Bowman holds the Louis Heyman University Professorship, with joint appointments in the department of biochemistry and biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the department of bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

His research aims to combat global health threats like COVID-19 and Alzheimers disease by better understanding how proteins function and malfunction, especially through new computational and experimental methods that map protein structures. This understanding of protein dynamics can lead to effective new treatments for even the most seemingly resistant diseases.

Delivering the right treatment to the right person at the right time is vital to sustainingand savinglives, Penn President Liz Magill said. Greg Bowmans novel work holds enormous promise and potential to advance new forms of personalized medicine, an area of considerable strength for Penn. A gifted researcher and consummate collaborator, we are delighted to count him among our distinguished PIK University Professors.

Dr. Bowman comes to Penn from the Washington University School of Medicines department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, where he has served on the faculty since 2014. He previously completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Bowmans research uses high-performance supercomputers for simulations that can better explain how mutations and disease change a proteins functions. These simulations are enabled in part through the innovative Folding@home project, which Dr. Bowman directs. Folding@home empowers anyone with a computer to run simulations alongside a consortium of universities, with more than 200,000 participants worldwide.

Greg Bowmans highly innovative work exemplifies the power of our interdisciplinary mission at Penn, Interim Provost Beth A. Winkelstein said. He brings together supercomputers, biophysics, and biochemistry to make a vital impact on public health. This brilliant fusion of methodsin the service of improving peoples lives around the worldwill be a tremendous model for the research of our faculty, students, and postdocs in the years ahead.

The Penn Integrates Knowledge program is a University-wide initiative to recruit exceptional faculty members whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge across disciplines. Penn Integrates Knowledge professors are appointed in at least two schools at Penn.

The Louis Heyman University Professorship is a gift of Stephen J. Heyman, a 1959 graduate of the Wharton School, and his wife, Barbara Heyman, in honor of Stephen Heymans uncle. Stephen Heyman is a University Emeritus Trustee and member of the School of Nursing Board of Advisors. He is a managing partner at Nadel and Gussman LLC in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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