John Kuriyan

John Kuriyan
John Kuriyan in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
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Scientific career
InstitutionsVanderbilt University School of Medicine
ThesisThe structure and flexibility of myoglobin : molecular dynamics and x-ray crystallography (1986)
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John Kuriyan is the dean of basic sciences and a professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was formerly the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the departments of molecular and cell biology (MCB) and chemistry, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's physical biosciences division, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he has also been on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009, 2019 and 2020.