Clifford Brangwynne

Clifford Brangwynne is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University and a 2018 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for his work in bioengineering. In his work he made discoveries about how cellular components called membraneless organelles are formed and the role they play in cells. His articles have appeared in scientific journals including Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Nature Physics and more.
Brangwynne grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and received his BS in material science and engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD in applied physics at Harvard University. He did postdoctoral research in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems.
Publications.
S. Elbaum-Garfinkle, Y. Kim, K. Szczepaniak, C.C. Chen, C.R. Eckmann, S. Myong, C.P. Brangwynne. The disordered P granule protein LAF-1 drives phase separation into droplets with tunable viscosity and dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015.
M. Feric, N. Vaidya, T.S. Harmon, D.M. Mitrea, L. Zhu, T.M. Richardson, R.W. Kriwacki, R.V. Pappu, C.P. Brangwynne. Coexisting liquid phases underlie nucleolar subcompartments. Cell, 2016.
Sanders DW, Kedersha N, Lee DSW, Strom AR, Drake V, Riback JA, Bracha D, Eeftens JM, Iwanicki A, Wang A, Wei MT, Whitney G, Lyons SM, Anderson P, Jacobs WM, Ivanov P, Brangwynne CP. Cell. 2020 
Y. Shin, C.P. Brangwynne. Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease. Science, 2017.
Y. Shin, Y-C. Chang, D.S.W. Lee, J. Berry, D.W. Sanders, P. Ronceray, N.S. Wingreen, M.P. Haataja, C.P. Brangwynne. Liquid nuclear condensates mechanically sense and restructure the genome. Cell, 2018.
Honors.
2012 NIH New Innovator Award, National Institute of Health
2014 Sloan Research Fellow, Sloan Foundation
2015 ASCB - Gibco Emerging Leader Award
2018 MacArthur Fellowship
2020 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
2020 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Awards Laureate in Life Sciences