Frank Ferrone MA, PhD

Frank Ferrone is a Professor of Physics and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research at Drexel University. Trained as a physicist at Manhattan College (BS) and Princeton University (Ph.D.), his interest in Biological Physics began with his doctoral dissertation and led him to a subsequent postdoctoral Staff Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. There he began the work with Drs. Hofrichter and Eaton would unravel the mechanism of sickle cell polymerization. With NIH grant support he has continued exploring various facets of this physically-rich system and is presently involved in developing diagnostic tools to help describe the state of patients suffering from the disease.