Researchers in structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics

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A. Joshua Wand

A. Joshua Wand is an American biophysical chemist known for using NMR spectroscopy to measure conformational entropy in proteins, showing how it shapes molecular recognition and ligand binding.

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A.R. Aricescu

A. Radu Aricescu is a structural biologist at Oxford and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who solved the first structure of a GABA receptor.

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A.R. Ferré-D′Amaré

Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré is an American structural biologist at the NIH who determines the three-dimensional structures of non-coding RNAs, including riboswitches, ribozymes, and the helicase DHX36.

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Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Ciechanover, born in Haifa in 1947, is an Israeli biochemist at the Technion who co-discovered ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, earning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Aaron Klug

Aaron Klug, also known as Sir Aaron Klug, was a Lithuanian-born British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystallographic electron microscopy.

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Aaron T Bozzi

Aaron T Bozzi is an American biochemist and structural biologist who earned his PhD at Harvard in 2018 and is known for mechanistic work on Nramp-family transition metal transporters.

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Aashish Manglik

Aashish Manglik is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco known for structural studies of opioid and odorant receptors and co-founding Epiodyne.

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Abraham White

Abraham White (1908–1980) was an American biochemist who demonstrated the transsulfuration pathway, isolated prolactin and ACTH, led biochemistry at Albert Einstein, and joined the National Academy of Sciences.

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Achillefs N. Kapanidis

Achillefs N. Kapanidis is a Greek biophysicist, Professor of Biological Physics at Oxford since 2013, known for single-molecule fluorescence methods, the 2006 DNA-scrunching discovery, and the Nanoimager microscope.

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Ad Bax

Adriaan (Ad) Bax is a Dutch biophysicist who has led NMR spectroscopy research at NIH since 1983, developing methods for determining protein structures and motions.

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Ada E. Yonath

Ada E. Yonath (עדה יונת) was an Israeli structural biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping the ribosome's structure.

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Adam Frost (structural biologist)

Adam Frost is a Utah-born physician-scientist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study how protein machines remodel cell membranes, trained at BYU and Yale and now a principal investigator at Altos Labs.

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Agnieszka Chacinska

Agnieszka Chacińska is a Polish molecular biologist who studies mitochondrial protein import, known for defining the redox-driven MIA pathway and directing IMol PAS in Warsaw since 2020.

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Ahmet Yıldız

Ahmet Yıldız is a Turkish-born biophysicist and professor of physics at UC Berkeley who studies motor proteins and telomeres, known for the 2003 kinesin hand-over-hand finding and the FIONA technique.

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Aidan J. Doherty

Aidan J. Doherty (A.J. Doherty) is a biochemist and structural biologist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Sussex since 2009, known for identifying bacterial NHEJ DNA repair.

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Ailong Ke

Ailong Ke is a structural biologist and biochemist known for determining molecular structures of CRISPR-Cas immune systems and riboswitches; he moved from Cornell to Yale in 2024.

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Alan D. Frankel

Alan D. Frankel is an American structural biologist and virologist, Recall Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, known for studies of HIV Tat and Rev proteins.

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Alan Finkelstein

Alan Finkelstein is a biophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose measurements of water movement through lipid membranes supported the existence of water channels.

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Alan R. Fersht

Sir Alan R. Fersht, born in 1943, is a British chemist at Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who pioneered protein engineering and Φ-value analysis of protein folding.

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Alan S. Cohen

Alan S. Cohen (1926 to 2018) was an American physician-scientist and rheumatologist at Boston University who used electron microscopy to establish the fibrous structure of amyloid deposits.

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Alan Solomon

Alan Solomon, born in 1933, is an American physician-scientist and University of Tennessee professor emeritus known for nearly five decades of research on Bence Jones proteins and AL amyloidosis.

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Alasdair C. Steven

Alasdair C. Steven is a structural biologist who spent his career at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, using cryo-electron microscopy to study virus capsids and how DNA is packaged inside them.

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Albert E. Dahĺberg

Albert E. Dahĺberg, also known as A.E. Dahlberg, was an American molecular biologist and Brown University professor known for his 1989 Cell review on ribosomal RNA in protein synthesis.

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Albert J. Courey

Albert J. Courey is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at UCLA whose Cell papers on the transcription factor Sp1 established its glutamine-rich activation motif.

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Albert Jeltsch

Albert Jeltsch (born 1966 in Kassel, Germany) is a German biochemist, professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2011, known for work on DNA methyltransferases.

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Albert L. Lehninger

Albert L. Lehninger (1917–1986) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins who established mitochondria as the site of cellular energy reactions and wrote the influential textbook Biochemistry.

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Albert Szent-Györgyi

Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who isolated vitamin C from paprika, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and discovered the muscle proteins actin and myosin.

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Albert Weixlbaumer

Albert Weixlbaumer is a structural biologist who led the 2008 RF2 ribosome structure behind the 2009 Chemistry Nobel and runs a lab at the IGBMC in France.

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Albrecht Kossel

Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927) was a German biochemist at the University of Heidelberg who identified the nucleobases adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine, winning the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Aled Edwards

Aled Edwards is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Toronto who founded and leads the Structural Genomics Consortium, which places all its research in the public domain.