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Tim Deming's Home Page.

Work Email Address:

demingt@seas.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

UCLA
Department of Bioengineering
Box 951600
Los Angeles, CA

Office Address:

5121 C Engineering V

Work Phone Number:

(310) 204-5956
(310) 207-4450

Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry

A Short Biography:

Timothy Deming received his B.S. in Chemistry fom the University of California, Irvine in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. After a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he joined the faculty in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. Here he held a joint appointment in the Materials and Chemistry Departments where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2003. In 2004 he moved to UCLA where he is now as Professor and Chair of the Bioengineering Department and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Awards and Honors:

Unilever Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry ; World Polymer Congress IUPAC Macromolecular Division, Samsung-IUPAC Young Scientist Award ; Materials Research Society Young Investigator Award ; Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award ; 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award ; Beckman Young Investigator Award ; NSF CAREER Award ; UC Regents Junior Faculty Fellow ; Office of Naval Research Young Investigator ; American Chemical Society Institut Curie Rothschild and Mayent Foundation Fellow ; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Research Interest:

Current research interests include polypeptide synthesis, self-assembly of block copolypeptides, biological activity of polypeptides, and use of biological precedents and strategies for the design of new materials. Research in the Deming group is focused around new, practical chemical routes for the synthesis of biological and bio-mimetic materials.

Detailed Biography:

Timothy J. Deming received a B.S. in Chemistry fom the University of California, Irvine in 1989, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, under Bruce Novak in 1993. After a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with David Tirrell, he joined the faculty in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. Here he held a joint appointment in the Materials and Chemistry Departments where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2003. His appointment is now as the Chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Current research interests include polypeptide synthesis, self-assembly of block copolypeptides, and biological activity of polypeptides, for which he has received young investigator awards from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Materials Research Society, and the IUPAC Macromolecular Division.

Publications:

Cui, H.; Krikorian, V.; Thompson, J.; Nowak, A. P.; Deming, T. J.; Pochan, D. J. "Preparation and Characterization of Synthetic Polypeptide Single Crystals with Controlled Thickness", Macromolecules , 2005; 38: 7371-7377.

Holowka, EP Pochan, DJ Deming, TJ Charged polypeptide vesicles with controllable diameter. Journal of the American Chemical Society. , 2005; 127(35): 12423-8.

Deming, T. J. Polypeptide Hydrogels via a Unique Assembly Mechanism, Soft Matter, 2005; (1): 28-35.

Tomczak, MM Glawe, DD Drummy, LF Lawrence, CG Stone, MO Perry, CC Pochan, DJ Deming, TJ Naik, RR Polypeptide-templated synthesis of hexagonal silica platelets. Journal of the American Chemical Society. , 2005; 127(36): 12577-82.

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