Research

“By all measures, he is one of the most successful and accomplished researchers in our department’s history, ” his nominators said. 

Since 1998, he has published 118 peer-reviewed manuscripts in top-tier chemistry/biochemistry journals. Eight of these papers were selected as “hot topic” or “cover” articles for the journal issue in which they were published.

His research is currently funded by more than $3.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Since 1998, he has been awarded more than $5.5 million in research grants and he has been a lead PI or co-PI on equipment grants totaling more than $2.9 million.

His research funding is comparable to funding of the best faculty at large research universities, his nominators said. “It is important to note that only five- to ten-percent of most federal grant proposals are being funded, and the competition in Lorigan's field of biophysics of membranes is particularly fierce.”

Last summer he was awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) of more than $1.8 million from the National Institute of Health —  a first for a researcher at Miami.

Lorigan has served on many grant panels at NSF and NIH, and he was a permanent member of the NIH BBM (Biochemistry/Biophysics of Membranes) study panel. Serving as a permanent study panel member on an NIH panel is a first for any faculty member in the department of chemistry and biochemistry and is a testament to his standing in the biophysical community, his nominators said.