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David Eisenberg
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David Eisenberg
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Born | (1939-03-15) March 15, 1939 (age 85)
Chicago, Illinois, US
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Alma mater | Harvard University (undergraduate) The Queen's College, Oxford (postgraduate) |
Awards | Harvey Prize (2008) ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2013)[1] |
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Fields | Proteins[2] Amyloid[3] Structural biology[4][5][6] |
Institutions | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Oxford University of California, Los Angeles Harvard University California Institute of Technology Princeton University |
Thesis | Some problems in the electronic structure of molecules (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Coulson[citation needed] |
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David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939[citation needed]) is an American biochemist and biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology and computational molecular biology. He has been a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and was director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics, as well as a member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Eisenberg attended Harvard University and graduated in 1961 with an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences. He went on to the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a D.Phil in 1965[16] for research supervised by Charles Coulson.
Eisenberg's current research focuses on the structural biology of amyloidogenic proteins, while his computational efforts largely center on the development of bioinformatic/proteomic methodologies for elucidation and analysis of protein interaction networks. His research group hosts the Database of Interacting Proteins.[17]
He was the recipient of Harvey Prize (Human Health) 2008 in recognition of his contributions in unfolding the structure of amyloid fibrils. The award was presented to him at a ceremony that took place on March 23, 2009 at the Technion. This recently recognized protein state provides opportunities to understand cells in health and disease.[18]
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