Gregory Petsko

Gregory Anthony Petsko (born August 7, 1948 in Washington, DC ) is an American biochemist and neuroscientist at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City . Together with his long-time research partner Dagmar rings Petsko is considered the founder of the scientific area of "structural euros Logie" as the cross-section area between structural biology and neurology .

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Petsko received a BA in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1973 from David C. Phillips at Oxford University. in molecular biophysics . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Pierre Douzou in Paris. He received his first professorship (assistant professor) at Wayne State University School of Medicine , before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an associate professor of chemistry in 1979 , where he was finally given a full professorship. In 1990 he moved to Brandeis University as Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry , where he was Director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center from 1994 to 2006 and headed the Department of Biochemistry from 2008 to 2011. 2014 Petsko was a professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Weill Cornell Medical College . He also holds a professorship in medical technology (Biomedical engineering) at the Cornell University held.

Gregory Petsko has refined the methods of crystallography over many years and extended them to the time-dependent three-dimensional observation of enzyme-substrate complexes or enzyme- intermediate complexes. Today (as of 2017) he conducts basic research in the field of the relationship between proteins , protein structure and function and neurodegenerative diseases . With the help of genetic and structural biology techniques (in particular protein crystallography ) as well as structure-mediated pharmaceutical research ( drug design ) , he researches new goals for the drug treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Petsko is married to the immunologist Laurie H. Glimcher .

Awards (selection)

• 1978 Sloan Research Fellow
• 1987 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
• 1991 Max Planck Research Prize
• 1995 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2001 member of the Institute of Medicine
• 2002 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2004 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2008–2010 President of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• 2010 member of the American Philosophical Society
• 2011 Honorary Doctorate from Dalhousie University (Canada)

Web links

• Gregory Petsko - Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neuroscience and Petsko Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College (cornell.edu)

• CURRICULUM VITAE Gregory A Petsko

Individual evidence

1. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed July 6, 2019 . 
2. ^ Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (PDF, 48 kB) from the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (dicbiolchem.org); accessed on January 1, 2017.
3. ↑ Gregory Petsko. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved January 1, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); accessed on January 1, 2017.
5. ^ ASBMB Presidents: 2008–2010 - Gregory A. Petsko. In: asbmb.org. Retrieved January 1, 2017 . 
6. ↑ XTF: Results. In: amphilsoc.org. Retrieved January 1, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Gregory Petsko. In: dal.ca. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .