
Evan O’Brien
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
725 N. Wolfe Street, WBSB 708
Baltimore, MD 21205-2185
Dr. Evan O’Brien is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He got his B.S. in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania for his doctoral work with Dr. A. Joshua Wand in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and received his Ph.D. in 2018. Following his graduate work, he pursued postdoctoral studies with Dr. Brian K. Kobilka at Stanford University. Dr. O’Brien’s lab at Hopkins is focused on understanding allostery within G-protein coupled receptors and exploiting this understanding in the development of novel therapeutics.