Kenneth N. McGuinness, PhD

Kenneth has a PhD in Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics from Rutgers University. During his PhD studies at CABM, he focused on how hydrophobicity can be tuned to modulate collagen-like peptide supramolecular assembly. After his PhD studies, Kenneth was awarded a Merck Inc., & Co. Postdoctoral Fellowship. At Merck, Kenneth applied machine learning to the study of predicting changes in protein thermostability due to single amino acid substitutions. Realizing his dream of teaching and performing science with undergraduates, he went back to academia, was awarded an NIH IRACDA fellowship, and was recently hired as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Caldwell University in Caldwell NJ, starting in fall 2022. As an IRACDA fellow, Kenneth worked at CABM in Dr. Vikas Nanda’s lab studying the structural evolution of metal sites within proteins and minerals.