An associate professor at Baylor University, Bryan Shaw has a broad history in various fields of chemistry. He holds a bachelor of science in biochemistry and biophysics from Washington State University and a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating with his PhD, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University under the celebrated chemist George M. Whitesides. Bryan Shaw subsequently joined the Baylor faculty as an assistant professor.
After six years as an assistant professor, Dr. Shaw accepted a promotion to associate professor in 2016. In addition to teaching chemistry and biochemistry, he has accomplished much as a researcher, securing multiple awards from the National Institutes of Health and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. After devoting the majority of his career to ALS research, he expanded into the field of leukocoria detection in 2008 in the wake of his son’s retinoblastoma diagnosis.