Biography
Ram Samudrala is Professor and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics, State University of New York, Buffalo researching multiscale modeling of atomic, molecular, cellular, and physiological systems, with an emphasis on protein and proteome structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution. His work has led to more than 115 publications in journals such as Science, Nature, PLoS Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Samudrala joined the University of Washington faculty in 2001 (where he remains an Affiliate Professor) after completing his doctoral research with John Moult at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in 1997, and his postdoctoral research with Michael Levitt (2013 Nobel in Chemistry) at Stanford University in 2000, which resulted in him making some of the best predictions at the first three community-wide assessment of protein structure prediction (CASP) experiments. In 2002, he received a Searle Scholar Award which funds exceptional young scientists, was named one of the world's top young innovators (TR100) by MIT Technology Review in 2003, and was selected to present the University of Washington New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture in 2004.
Research Interest
Molecular and Population Genetics, Developmental Biology, Bacterial Physiology, Plant Structure Function and Systematics, Evolution, Developmental Biology, Chemistry of Nucleic Acids, Protein Chemistry and Enzymic Catalysis, Protein Structure and Function, Cell Biology, and Biophysics and Theoretical/Computational Biology.
Biography
Dr. Mead leads the research and development efforts for the Company’s research use only products. He earned a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois–Champaign/Urbana. Dr. Mead is the inventor of TA cloning and is the co-author of forty four publications.
Research Interest
protein
Biography
John Gu is the President and CSO of Renascions, a precision medicine company in pharmaceutical development. He is an adjunct professor in the Molecular Pharmacology Department at City of Hope, and was a program director at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. He received his Ph.D in Chemistry, and was the recipient of the NIH Fellowship for the Human Genome Project at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. He worked on the discovery and applications of genome-wide SNPs and built a foundation for high density DNA microarray using in SNP mapping. His scientific focuses include developing clinical applications for GWAS SNP data, and his most recent interest is usingReAL, a proprietary technology, to measure, predict, and improve the clinical outcomes in genetic predisposition subpopulations. ReAL has been used in various clinical programs in collaborations with industrial partners, and has achieved outstanding results. In addition, Renascions is currently working on a T2D drug in clinical stages. Dr. Gu previously worked as a senior scientific staff and section head at Motorola Life Sciences, and as an executive at Vita Genomics, Shanghai GeneCore Biotechnologies, and CytoPharm Therapeutics. He also serves as a board director at Global Oceanic and Parallel 6.
Research Interest
Applications of genome-wide SNPs and built a foundation for high density DNA microarray using in SNP mapping