Eric Gouaux is an American biochemist and biophysicist who holds the Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Term Chair at the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University.
He moved to the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University in 2005 and was appointed the Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research in 2015.
[1] Gouaux was a recipient of the Searle Scholars Program award in 1994[2] and became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2000.
[4] Research in Gouaux's laboratory focuses on the molecular biochemistry of chemical synapses, particularly on the structures of proteins such as receptors and ion channels and on their response to neurotransmitters.
His research group uses structural biology techniques such as X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy, as well as electrophysiology.