Dr. Truman is a Professor and Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also a faculty member of the Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) Center and leads the Charlotte Group for Proteostasis Research. Dr. Truman earned his PhD in Biochemistry from University College London and held research positions at the University of Chicago, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on "The Chaperone Code," specifically investigating the post-translational modifications of the Hsp70 molecular chaperone. He has published 67 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 28. His work is currently supported by five different NIH agencies, totalling $6.6M of funding. He is a Fellow of the Cell Stress Society (FSSI) and is a Senior Editor for Cell Stress and Chaperones and Journal of Biological Chemistry. In September 2022, he was awarded the Ferruccio Ritossa Award by Cell Stress Society International (CSSI) for his work in understanding the interplay between chaperones and proteins involved in signal transduction. Dr. Truman is an avid mountain biker and spends his weekends tackling some of the toughest (and most fun!) trails in the North Carolina countryside.