At A Glance
Name: Lawrence DeLucas
Age: 52
Title: Director, Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, since 1994
Prior Experience: BS, MS in chemistry; BS in physiological optics, UAB
Doctor of optometry, UAB, 1981
PhD in biochemistry, UAB, 1982
NASA chief scientist for International Space Station, 1994-95
Conducted protein crystallization experiments on a 14-day mission on space shuttle Columbia in 1992.