Josh Wand Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Josh Wand was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) in biochemistry from Carleton University in Ottawa.
Working under the direction of Stan Tsai, he also received a M.Sc. in bioorganic chemistry from Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Walter Englander.
After a short postdoctoral stint in solid state NMR at the National Research Council of Canada with I.C.P. Smith, he joined the faculty of the Institute for Cancer Research. He subsequently spent time on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He is currently the Benjamin Rush Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics where he continues to employ novel applications of solution NMR to questions in protein biophysics.