Daniel Kahne

He/him/his

Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Email: kahne@chemistry.harvard.edu

Dan was born in Boston and grew up in Lexington, MA. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in art history and chemistry and from Columbia University in 1986 with a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and joined the chemistry faculty at Princeton in 1988.  Dan moved to Harvard in 2004.  Dan is a chemist who is interested in the mechanisms of antibiotic killing and resistance.  He is known for his studies characterizing the proteins that assemble the outer membrane that protects Gram-negative bacteria.

Dan's family has a home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and he grew up hiking and skiing in Franconia Notch.  Although he has traveled all over the world, nothing he has seen is as beautiful as the views from Bondcliff overlooking the Pemigewasset Wilderness during the fall color change, or in the Great Gulf in the col near Star Lake between Mount Madison and Adams in a rainstorm.