Devaraj Research Group

Neal Devaraj is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is the Founding Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of California, San Diego. He is the inaugural holder of the Presidential Chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. A native of Southern California, he attended college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he performed research in the lab of Prof. Moungi Bawendi. He earned his PhD in Chemistry at Stanford University in the labs of Profs. James Collman and Christopher Chidsey. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Prof. Ralph Weissleder, he joined UCSD. His research interests are in artificial cells, lipid membranes, and bioconjugation.