#  Yuh Min Chook 

1994 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Professor and Mabel & Alfred Gilman Chair in Molecular Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern

 

 

 



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**Dissertation Title:** Crystal Structures of the Monofunctional Chorismate Mutase from *Bacillus subtilis* and Its Complexes With a Transition State Analog and Prephenate

**PhD Dissertation Advisor:** Dr. William N. Lipscomb, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University

- **Activities Post-PhD**

1994-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

1996-2001 Postdoctoral Associate, Rockefeller University, New York

- **Past and Current Positions**

2001- 2008 Assistant Professor and Eugene McDermott Scholar in Biomedical Research, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2008- 2013 Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern

2013-present Professor, Depts. of Pharmacology and Biophysics, UT Southwestern

2018-present Professor and Mabel and Alfred Gilman Chair in Molecular Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern



 

 

 





 

 

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