NYSBC - Key Persons
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Chief of Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy Section, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Bax has been with the National Institutes of Health since 1983. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Dr. Bax has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002. Over the past three decades, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the E. Bright Wilson Award of the American Chemical Society.
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- Professor, Pharmacological Sciences & Oncological Sciences
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- Esther and Ronald Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Chair, Department of Chemistry
- Professor
Ann McDermott is the Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Departments of Chemistry, Biological Sciences, and Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She is the lead investigator for solid-state NMR spectroscopy at CoMD/NMR.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director of Co
- NMR Director
Arthur Palmer is the Director of CoMD/NMR, Director of NMR Spectroscopy at NYSBC, and the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophyics at Columbia University. He also is the lead investigator for solution NMR spectroscopy at CoMD/NMR.
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- Senior Research Director for Computational Sciences at the Structural Biology Initiative
Bruce Johnson is the Senior Research Director for Computational Sciences at the Structural Biology Initiative of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. He is the lead investigator for software development at CoMD/NMR.
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- Member and Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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- Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Anesthesiology, Professor of Biochemistry
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- Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Department of Systems & Computational Biology
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- Chairman
- Member of the Officers Team
- Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
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- NYX Beamline Director Emeritus
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- Scientist / NCCAT Manager
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- Scientist
- Senior Scientist
Eric Keeler is Senior Scientist at NYSBC. He conducts research in solid-state NMR spectroscopy.
Tassadite Dahmane is Senior Scientist at NYSBC. She conducts research in NMR spectroscopy.
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Secretary
- Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry
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- Professor, Senior Advisor to the Dean and Provost, Weill Cornell Medicine / Senior Associate Core Member, New York Genome Center
Dr. Varmus is the co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studies of the genetic basis of cancer. He has also been the recipient of many other awards and honors, among them the National Science Foundation's Vannevar Bush Award. His academic credentials include a B.A. from Amherst College, M.A. from Harvard University and M.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Varmus joined Weill Cornell Medical College in 2015 following his tenure as Director of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
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- Jack Fishman Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, and Structural Biology
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
Jessica Bonsu is Computational Scientist at CUNY ASRC. She develops software applications for NMR processing and analysis.
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- Machine Learning Engineer
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- NYX Beamline Director and Lead Scientist
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- Director, Structural Biology Initiative, Einstein Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the City College of New York
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- Accounts Payable Specialist
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- Senior Scientist
- NMR Manager, Senior Scientist
Michael Goger is Senior Scientist and NMR Manager at NYSBC. He conducts research in both solution and solid state NMR spectroscopy.
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- Professor & Chair, Pharmacological Sciences, Co - Director Experimental Therapeutics Institute, Professor, Oncological Sciences
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- Scientist / NCITU Manager
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- Assistant Vice Provost for Research Planning and Analysis
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- NYX Beamline Director and Lead Scientist
- NYX Beamline Director Emeritus
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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- Research Scientist and Project Leader, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
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- Director, Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center. Professor, Department of Medical Sciences, University at Albany
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Henderson is the co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work related to cryo-electron microscopy. Dr. Henderson has been with the University of Cambridge, from which he received his Ph.D., since 1973. He received his B.S. from Edinburgh University. Dr. Henderson is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, among them the Distinguished Scientist Award and Fellow, Microscopy Society of America.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Director of the Whitehead Institute
- Professor of Biology Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Lehmann became director of the Whitehead Institute in 2020 after serving in leadership roles at NYU from 1996 to 2020, including as director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology. She has received multiple professional awards and honors during her career. Dr. Lehmann received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the American Society for Cell Biology.
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- Jack Fishman Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, and Structural Biology
Shibani Bhattacharya is Senior Scientist at NYSBC. She conducts research in solution NMR spectroscopy.
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Professor, Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Harrison has spent the bulk of his career at Harvard University, from which he received both his B.A. and Ph.D. He has served on several Scientific Advisory and Editorial Boards. Professional societies of which he is a member include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Crystallographic Association. He has received multiple professional awards and honors during his career.
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- Member & Professor, Structural Biology
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- Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Treasurer
- Executive Vice President, the Rockefeller University
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- Provost, the City College of New York
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- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
- Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Ramakrishnan is the co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome. Dr. Ramakrishnan has been with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge since 1999. He received his B.S. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Ph.D. from Ohio University. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and, from November 2015 until November 2020, was President of the Royal Society. He has received multiple professional awards and honors during his career
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- Senior Grants & Contracts Manager
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- Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry