Wayne A. Hendrickson (born April 25, 1941, New York City) is an American biophysicist and university professor at Columbia.
from the University of Wisconsin at River Falls, a Ph.D. in biophysics at Johns Hopkins University with Warner Love, and postdoctoral research experience with Jerome Karle at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).
He and his colleagues use biochemistry and x-ray crystallography to study molecular properties in atomic detail with current emphasis on membrane receptors and cellular signaling, on viral proteins and HIV infection, on molecular chaperones and protein folding, and on structural genomics of membrane proteins.
On June 2, 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden[1] He is best known for innovating the use of multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion as an analytical tool for protein crystallography.
His research group pioneered solving the crystal structures of CD4, CD8, insulin receptor kinase, Hsp70, SRC kinase, HIV gp120, cadherin, FGF and many other proteins that are key for understanding human disease and drug development.