After obtaining a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science, George Rose completed a PhD in biochemistry and biophysics at OSU in 1976. He is currently a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Biophysics and director of the Institute for Biophysical Research at Johns Hopkins University, where his research is focused on protein and RNA folding.
Rose started his academic career in the Chemistry Department at the University of Delaware, then spent 11 years at Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Biological Chemistry, the M.S. Hershey Medical Center, where he became a distinguished professor and chair of the department. In 1994, he moved to the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, serving as chair from 2004-2007.
Rose is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and recipient of the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science, Bard College (his alma mater).
Degrees
- MS Math 1972
- PhD 1976