Donald L. Melchior

Donald L. Melchior received a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, studied Physics and Physiology at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen Germany and received an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, New Haven, CT. He did postdoctoral work at the C.N.R.S., Gif-sur-Yvette, France and in the Chemistry Dept. of Brown University, Providence R.I. He was on the Chemistry faculty at Brown University, lecturer at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and tenured faculty at UMass Medical School, Worcester MA. Dr. Melchior’s professional interests center on the physical behavior of lipids and membrane bilayers, encapsulation techniques, and reconstituted membrane systems.