Mario Borgnia

Mario J. Borgnia is Head of the Molecular Microscopy Group and Director of the Cryo-EM Core at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and an adjunct professor at Duke University. He trained at Johns Hopkins University with Nobel Prize laureate Peter Agre, where he performed biophysical characterization of water transport by bacterial aquaporins. Motivated by the underlying structural mechanisms, he subsequently transitioned to cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) for structural biology training at the National Cancer Institute with Sriram Subramaniam.