Peter D. Kwong PhD

Dr. Kwong received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1995 and continued as a postdoc with Wayne A. Hendrickson until 2000 when he was appointed to his current position as Chief of the Structural Biology Section at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institutes of Health. Since 2016, Dr. Kwong has also been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University.

Dr. Kwong is internationally recognized for his work defining structural aspects of the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins and their interactions with antibodies. His awards include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2003), the Norman P. Salzman Award in Virology (2012), election to the American Academy of Microbiology (2014), and multiple NIAID Merit and NIH Director’s Awards. For the last several years, his group at the VRC has focused on applying the atomic-level tools of structural biology to the development of effective vaccines against HIV-1 and other viral pathogens. At Columbia University, his efforts have focused on Antibodyomics, the informatics of antibody recognition, development, and improvement.