Dr. Baudry is the UAH Pei-Ling Chan Eminent Scholar in the department of Biological Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics with the highest honors from Sorbonne University, Paris, France. He subsequently joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral fellow. After his postdoctoral work, Dr. Baudry joined the pharmaceutical industry as a research scientist, and then returned to Academia to conduct and direct research with increasing levels of responsibility in Illinois, Tennessee, and Alabama where he accepted the Pei-Ling Chan Eminent Scholar professorship in Fall 2017.

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Dr. Baudry is a recognized expert in computer-assisted drug discovery and structural biology. Over the last ten years, he obtained over 9 million dollars in external funding from federal sources and industrial collaborations. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed research papers and is inventor or co-inventor on several invention disclosures and patents.

 

Dr. Baudry serves on review panels and advisory boards for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Academy of Sciences.

 

Dr. Baudry is involved in philanthropic causes and artistic causes in the community.