Rachel Karchin
Rachel Karchin | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Workplaces | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Evaluating Local Structure Alphabets for Protein Structure Prediction (2003) |
| Kevin Karplus[1] | |
Rachel Karchin is a computational biologist working in computational cancer genomics. She is a professor of biomedical engineering, oncology and computer science at Johns Hopkins University.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Karchin received her BS (1998) in computer engineering and her MS (2000) and PhD (2003) in computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] Her doctoral thesis, titled "Evaluating Local Structure Alphabets for Protein Structure Prediction" was supervised by Kevin Karplus.[1]
Career and research
[edit]From 2003-2006, Karchin was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Andrej Šali at the University of California, San Francisco.[3]
Awards and honours
[edit]In 2025, Karchin was named by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as an ISCB Fellow.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Rachel Karchin - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
- 1 2 "Rachel Karchin". Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ↑ "Andrej Sali Lab". salilab.org. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ↑ "March 11, 2025: ISCB Announces the 2025 Class of Fellows". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
