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James Fraser
James Fraser studied Biology as an undergraduate at McGill University. His Ph.D. work at UC Berkeley under Dr. Tom Alber focused on the relationship between protein conformational dynamics and enzymatic catalysis. He moved to UCSF to start his lab in 2011. Currently, Professor Fraser is Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. His work spans across various disciplines, including structural biology, deep mutational scanning, and drug discovery. Fraser is also known for his commitment to open science and served on the board of ASAPbio for many years.
Stephen K. Burley
Stephen Kevin Burley, M.D., D.Phil. is an expert in data science and bioinformatics, structural biology, and structure-guided drug discovery. He is the Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB.org). Within Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey he holds the rank of University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair; and serves as Interim Director of the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory; Founding Director of the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine; Tenured Member of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; and Cancer Pharmacology Research Program Co-Leader within the Rutgers Cancer Institute. Burley’s previous roles were Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar, Eli Lilly and Co.; Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President for Research, SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Furlaud Chaired Professor, The Rockefeller University; and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His degrees include M.D. -Harvard Medical School; D.Phil. -Oxford University; and B.Sc. (Physics) and Doctor of Science (Honoris causa) -Western University. As a member of the American Crystallographic Association(ACA) since 1989 and ACA Fellow (elected 2020), Burley has published extensively in structural biology; structure-guided drug discovery; data science, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning; and clinical oncology.
Dr. Stephen Harrison
Stephen C. Harrison is Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard in 1963 and his Ph.D. (Biophysics) from Harvard in 1968. He has served on the Harvard faculty since 1971. Between 1972 and 1996, he was Chair of the Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences, Harvard’s undergraduate program in biochemistry; he was Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Faculty of Arts & Sciences) from 1988-1992, and Acting Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Harvard Medical School) from 2009-2012.