Brian Strahl

Dr. Strahl is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been an investigator for the past 10 years. Dr. Strahl performed his post-doctoral studies with Dr. C. David Allis at the University of Virginia, where he formally proposed the histone code hypothesis – a far-reaching idea to explain the function of histone modifications. Dr. Strahl has been the recipient of various prestigious awards for his work on histone modifications. He was the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2003. Dr. Strahl also received the ASBMBSchering-Plough Research Institute Award in 2005, and the EUREKA award from the NIH in 2007.