Research Groups
Dr. Samuel M. Young, Jr. was most recently an Internal Research Group Leader (2008-2009) in the Department of Membrane Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany.
He conducted his postdoctoral work at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2000) in the Gene Therapy Center, at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California (2000-2004) in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratories, and at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in the Department of Membrane Biophysics (2004-2008).
He carried out his doctoral work at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1996-2000) in the Gene Therapy Center while enrolled in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology program, and his undergraduate work at Princeton University graduating in 1996 with an A.B in Molecular Biology. He has been a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and is currently a member of the Society for Neuroscience.
