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Thomas, Philip Jordan was born on January 17, 1957 in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States. Son of Nancy Bell Thomas.
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Philip Jordan Thomas
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Philip Jordan Thomas, American science educator. Achievements include first to established protein folding as a basis of human disease; patents for methods for discovery of correctors of protein folding defects; discovery of mechanochemical reaction cycle of ABC transporters,role of the proteasome in Parkinson Disease, Endoproteolytic Activity Of The Proteasome.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Columbia University SEAS, New York, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, University South Dakota, Vermillion, 1988.
Career
Psotdoc. fellow Johns Hopkins University School Medicine, Baltimore, 1988—1993. Professor University Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, since 1993. Science founder Reata Pharmaceuticals, Irving, Texas, since 2003.
Science advisor Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bethesda, Maryland, since 2001, Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, Chicago, 2008.
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Married Betsy Bodi Thomas, July 16, 1983. Children: Bennett Lewis, Weston Philip.
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Recipient Bioenergetics award, Biophysical Society, 1991, Postdoctoral Research award, Johns Hopkins University, 1992, Established Investigator award, American Heart Association, 1998, Medical Relief International award, Nih Niddk, 2008.Recipient Bioenergetics award, Biophysical Society, 1991, Postdoctoral Research award, Johns Hopkins University, 1992, Established Investigator award, American Heart Association, 1998, Medical Relief International award, Nih Niddk, 2008.