Eaton Lattman, dean of research and graduate education, is a professor of biophysics in the Krieger School and editor of the highly respected journal Proteins: Structure, function, and Bioinformatics.

Lattman helps students and faculty initiate and carry out research and scholarship by pointing them toward institutional funds as seed money; by helping faculty develop new sources of grant support; and by working to develop interdivisional projects.

In his work to make the graduate student experience ever more successful, Lattman works with the graduate board and the GRO on many substantive issues. His goal: to help improve the academic environment and quality of life for all of the school’s graduate students. Lattman has also worked closely with faculty and administrators to develop an infrastructure for graduate student recruitment and admissions. Lattman also supervises compliance with a variety of regulations and rules, including issues dealing with misconduct and human subject research.

Lattman joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1977 as assistant professor of biophysics in the School of Medicine. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1983, and to full professor in 1989. In 1996 he transferred within Johns Hopkins to the School of Arts and Sciences, where he served as chair of the Krieger School’s Department of Biophysics until 2004. In that year he assumed his current post in the dean’s office.

Lattman earned his bachelor’s in chemistry and physics from Harvard College in 1962, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins in biophysics in 1969. In succeeding years he served as a post-doctoral fellow at Hopkins, and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany, and at Brandeis University. He has served on many review and advisory panels, including as a member of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council (2000–2004). He was also a founding member of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Advisory Committee for the $500 million Protein Structure Initiative (2001–Present).

Within Johns Hopkins he has served, among other roles, as program director and training grant PI of the Graduate Training Program in Molecular Biophysics (1990–1997), and as Director of Admissions for the Program in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (1983-1988), which entailed creating a whole new recruiting structure for graduate students and significantly raised the quality of admitted students.

Eaton Lattman Dean of Research and Graduate Education

Eaton Lattman
Dean of Research and Graduate Education