Tanja Kortemme is a bioengineering professor at University of California, San Francisco. She has been recognized for outstanding contributions in computational protein design, including energy functions, sampling algorithms, and molecules to rewire cellular control circuits.[1] She was an inaugural Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigator and was inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.
Tanja Kortemme | |
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| Education | Leibniz University Hannover (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
| Known for | Rosetta |
| Honors | American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows |
Education
editKortemme earned her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at the University of Hannover before earning her diploma and doctorate in biochemistry. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Heidelberg, and joined the University of Washington as a computation associate.[2] After four years at the University of Washington, Kortemme accepted a job at the University of California, San Francisco.[3]
Career
editKortemme joined the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor in 2004. The following year, she was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[2] She later received the NSF Career Award in 2008.[4] In 2011, Kortemme received funding to conduct further research on biosensors that detect and respond to small molecules inside cells.[5]
In 2017, she was named an inaugural Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigator.[6][7] In 2019, Kortemme was inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.[8]
References
edit- ^ Paris, Sarah (2021-01-30). "Butte, Guccione, Kortemme, and Link Inducted Into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering". Precision Medicine at UCSF. Archived from the original on January 30, 2021. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ a b "Kortemme Named Sloan Fellow". pharmacy.ucsf.edu. April 6, 2005. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
- ^ Goodman, Sally (February 2004). "Getting mobile in Europe". Nature. 427 (6977): 868–869. Bibcode:2004Natur.427..868G. doi:10.1038/nj6977-868a. PMID 14985769. S2CID 5461645.
- ^ "Faculty honors and awards". ccb.ucsf.edu. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
- ^ Jacobson, David (April 13, 2012). "New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences in 2011". pharmacy.ucsf.edu. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
- ^ Kaiser, Jocelyn (2017-02-08). "Chan Zuckerberg Biohub funds first crop of 47 investigators". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal0719. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ "15 UCSF Researchers Named to First Cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators". 2017-02-08.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Gadye, Levi (March 28, 2019). "Kortemme and Desai honored at annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering". pharmacy.ucsf.edu. Retrieved April 5, 2019.