Positions and Honors Positions: 1) Postdoctoral Fellow in laboratory of Dr A.G Szent-Györgyi, Brandeis University, 9/69-12/72 2) Senior Staff Associate, Physiology Course, Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Summer 1971 3) Higher Scientific Officer in laboratory of Drs R Tregear and J Pringle, Oxford University, 1/73-9/73 4) Assistant Professor of Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, 9/73-8/78 5) Guest Scientist in laboratory of Drs K.C Holmes, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, 5/758/75 6) Associate Professor of Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, 9/78-8/89 7) Professor of Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, 9/89 – 6/00 8) Faculty Appointment, Cellular Biophysics Program, Boston University, 9/90 - present 9) Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 7/00 - present 10) Visiting Scientist, Rosenstiel Center, Brandeis University, 10/97-8/01 11) Adjunct Scientist, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, 7/00 – 2/13 Honors: New York State Regents Scholarship, 9/62 – 6/66 New York State Regents Incentive Award, 9/62 – 6/66 NSF-URP (Undergraduate Research Program) Awards, 9/65 – 6/66 National Defense Education Act Graduate Fellowship, 9/66-6/69 Charles Grosvenor Osgood Fellow - Princeton University, 9/68 - 6/69 Muscular Dystrophy Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, 9/69 - 8/71 Unilever Fellowship - Oxford University, 1/73 - 9/73 Established Investigatorship - American Heart Association, 7/82 - 6/87 Whitaker Health Sciences Award, 7/1/83 - 4/31/85 James A Shannon Director's Award, N.I.H., 9/30/92 - 9/29/94 MERIT award recipient, N.I.H., 2/19/08 Faculty Recognition Award for Educational Innovation, Boston University, 6/11/2010 Chosen as the first Albert Szent-Györgyi Lecturer, Eötvös Loránd (Budapest) University/Hungarian Academy of Sciences, lecture given on 3/18/2011 Spencer N Frankl Award for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University, 5/16/2014 Membership in Professional Societies: American Society for Cell Biology, Biophysical Society, Society of General Physiologists, Biochemical Society (U.K.), American Dental Educators Association Reviewing: Ad hoc grant reviewer for NSF and NIH; reviewer for DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Review manuscripts for many journals, most frequently for the Biophysical Journal, the Journal of Molecular Biology and the Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility On Editorial Board of the Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility