You’re awarded $500,000, and a few days later you get another couple hundred grand. Someone must like what you’re doing.
Biochemist Pehr Harbury has been raking in the kudos since he was named one of 25 winners of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation “genius award” on September 20. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation cited the 40-year-old researcher for his work in exploring the structure and activity of proteins, and for developing new methods for synthesizing drugs and other biologically active molecules.
Harbury, an associate professor of biochemistry, also was one of 13 researchers nationwide who were recognized by the National Institutes of Health on September 29 with a 2005 Pioneer Award. Harbury and the other two Stanford recipients—associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences Thomas Rando and assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Karl Deisseroth, PhD ’98, MD ’00—will receive up to $500,000 annually for five years to help fund their research.
