| Dr.
Mauk received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lawrence
University in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1969 and his M.D. and
Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1976.
He spent 1977 to 1979 as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in chemistry
at the California Institute of Technology. Since 1979 he has been
at the University of British Columbia, serving as assistant, associate,
and, since 1989, full professor of biochemistry in the Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Mauk’s research
interests center on studies of metalloproteins that include the
role of electron transfer in enzyme catalysis and mechanistic
studies of proteins involved in maintaining iron homeostasis.
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