{"id":16,"date":"2015-02-03T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:22:30","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2109\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Walid3_img-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Walid A. Houry, PhD<br \/>\nProfessor<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Position<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (July, 2016 &#8211; current).<\/li>\n<li>Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (July, 2010 &#8211; current).<\/li>\n<li>Associate professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (July, 2005 &#8211; June, 2010).<\/li>\n<li>Assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (April, 2000 &#8211; June, 2005).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Post-doctoral Positions <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post-doctoral fellow of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry with Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl in Martinsried, Germany (June 1997 &#8211; March 2000).<\/li>\n<li>Post-doctoral fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Sloan-Kettering Institute with Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl in New York City, USA (June 1996 &#8211; May 1997).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Degrees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. Chemistry, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), May 1996. Advisor: Dr. Harold Scheraga<\/li>\n<li>M.S. Chemistry, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), August 1991. Advisor: Dr. Harold Scheraga, Major: Biophysical Chemistry, Minor: Theoretical Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>B.S. Chemistry with High Distinction, American University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon), August 1990.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OIC-COMSTECH Distinguished Scholar, Pakistan (November, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Invited full member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society (May, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>F1Connect (previously F1000Prime) Faculty Member (August, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Scientist Award: National Research Foundation of South Africa (December, 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Biochemical Research Foundation Award (November, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund (July, 2009 &#8211; June , 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator (July, 2001 &#8211; June, 2006)<\/li>\n<li>Premier&#8217;s Research Excellence Award (January, 2002 &#8211; December, 2004)<\/li>\n<li>Fellow of the Max-Planck-Institute (June, 1997 &#8211; March, 2000)<\/li>\n<li>Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (June, 1996 &#8211; May, 1997)<\/li>\n<li>Tunis Wentink Award for outstanding graduate student (April, 1996)<\/li>\n<li>Franz Roessler graduate fellowship (Fall, 1993 &amp; Spring, 1994)<\/li>\n<li>Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize for outstanding work in Physical Chemistry (April, 1992)<\/li>\n<li>Member of Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society (1992)<\/li>\n<li>Dean&#8217;s Honor List at the American University of Beirut (1987 &#8211; 1990)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fluent in Arabic<\/li>\n<li>Some knowledge of French<\/li>\n<li>Some knowledge of German<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Walid A. Houry, PhD Professor &nbsp; Current Position Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (July, 2016 &#8211; current). Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (July, 2010 &#8211; current). Associate professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (July, 2005\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/?page_id=16\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lab.walidhoury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}