Lillian Chong, an assistant professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Chemistry, has been selected as a recipient of a 2012 Carnegie Science Award in the category of Emerging Female Scientist. The Emerging Female Scientist Award recognizes a female leader whose cutting-edge work inspires change in math, science, or technology.

Chong's areas of specialization and computational biophysics; molecular dynamics simulations; and, protein structure and function.

The central goal of the Chong Lab is to use theory and simulation to understand a variety of biological phenomena, including protein binding and switching events, while pursuing questions that cannot be addressed by laboratory experiments. To achieve this goal, we develop approaches for accurate simulation and subsequent computational analysis of protein structure and function.