David Eisenberg

David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg
Born (1939-03-15) March 15, 1939
Chicago, Illinois, US
Alma materHarvard University (undergraduate)
The Queen's College, Oxford (postgraduate)
AwardsHarvey Prize (2008)
ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsProteins
Amyloid
Structural biology
InstitutionsHoward Hughes Medical Institute
University of Oxford
University of California, Los Angeles
Harvard University
California Institute of Technology
Princeton University
ThesisSome problems in the electronic structure of molecules (1965)
Doctoral advisorCharles Coulson
Notable students
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David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist and biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology and computational molecular biology. He has been a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and was director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics, as well as a member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA.