Patrick J. Loll

Patrick Loll is a biophysicist and biochemist who seeks to understand how the structures of biomolecules determine their functions. He leads an active research group and participates extensively in graduate education.

Dr. Loll holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Catholic University of America and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, where he received training in membrane-protein structural biology. He has held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University; he is currently a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Drexel’s College of Medicine.

His laboratory uses structural, biochemical, and biophysical approaches to study the structure and function of biological macromolecules. Specific topics of interest include target recognition by large natural-product antibiotics, membrane protein structure, the regulation of vancomycin resistance, and the mechanics of TonB-dependent transport.

Dr. Loll has served as Secretary to the American Crystallographic Association and Co-Editor of Acta Crystallographica, Section F, and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.