Josh Beckham
- Associate Professor of Practice
- Freshman Research Initiative
Contact Information
5124715022
PAI
Room Number:2.08A
Biography
Dr. Beckham is head of the Virtual Cures (a.k.a. Virtual Drug Screening - VDS) stream of the Freshman Research Initiative. The stream runs both a freshman cohort and an upper-division cohort, which is part of the Advanced Research Initiative (ARI). Outreach efforts include the High School Research Initiative (HRI).
BioMolViz
From 2019-2025, Dr. Beckham served as the PI for the NSF funded RCN-UBE grant (#1920270) that supports the BioMolViz community of educators seeking to improve molecular visualization in the classroom.
Research
Research Areas
- Infectious Disease, Immunology and Microbiology
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology or Genetics
- STEM Education
- Vaccines and/or Therapeutics
Fields of Interest
- Structural Biology and Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Disease
- Molecular Biology, Genetics & Genomics
Education
- Washington & Lee University, B.S. Physics/Engineering
- Vanderbilt University, M.S. & Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering