Category
Team
Arieh Warshel
| PRINCIPAL INVESTAGATOR |
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| EDUCATION |
| PhD , Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1969 |
| MS , Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1967 |
| BS , Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1966 |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| Modern Biophysical Chemistry. |
Matthew Colopy
| EXECUTIVE PROJECT SPECIALIST |
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| ROLE |
| Colopy handles the day-to-day management of personnel, administrative, financial, and operational activities for the Warshel Center for Multiscale Simulations. |
Zhen Tao Chu
| SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE |
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| EDUCATION |
| PhD , Arizona State University, 1988 |
| BS , University of Science & Technology of China, 1970 |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| Chemical Reactions of Enzymes and Proteins in Biological System & Computational Chemistry Software Programming |
Ashim Nandi
| RESEARCH ASSOCIATE |
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| EDUCATION |
| Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2021-2022 |
| PhD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2017-2021 |
| MS, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2016-2017 |
| - 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Scholar and Mars Fellow |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| Enzyme Catalysis, Photochemical and Photophysical Processes, EVB, QCFF/PI. |
Ritaban Halder
| RESEARCH ASSOCIATE |
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| EDUCATION |
| Postdoc, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2020-2022 |
| PhD, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India, 2013-2020 |
| M.Sc, West Bengal State University, India, 2010-2012 |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| Motor Protein, Protein-inhibitor binding, Protein-ion interaction, Conformational change of protein. |
Natalie Gelfand
| RESEARCH ASSOCIATE |
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| EDUCATION |
| Postdoc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2020-2023 |
| PhD, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia, 2015-2019 |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| Computational chemistry, biochemistry, photochemistry. |
Alejandro Cruz-Saez
| RESEARCH ASSOCIATE |
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| EDUCATION |
| Postdoc, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2022-2023 |
| PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2019-2022 |
| MS, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 2017-2018 |
| BS in Chemistry and Physics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2012-2017 |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| QM/MM, MD simulations, SMD simulations, Membrane Proteins, GPCRs, S1PRs, Allosteric Effects, Photopharmacology, LOXs and COXs. |
Aoxuan (Augustine) Zhang
| RESEARCH ASSISTANT |
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| EDUCATION |
| MS, University of Southern California, 2021 |
| BS, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2019 |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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| Membrane protein, QM/MM, EVB, PDLD |
Andrew Levy
| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER |
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| EDUCATION |
| BS, University of Southern California, 2025 |
| - 2024 D E Shaw Research Undergraduate Fellowship Recipient |
| - Cengage Group Merit Scholarship Award Recipient |
| - USC Mann Undergraduate Merit Scholarship Recipient |
| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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Major: Pharmacology and Drug Development |
