Vamsi Mootha

Vamsi Krishna Mootha (* 1970 or 1971 ) is an Indian-American physician and molecular biologist.

Life

Mootha graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1993 and received her PhD in medicine (MD) from Harvard University Medical School in 1998 . He then completed specialist training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital through 2001 and then was a post-doctoral student at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Broad Institutes at MIT and Harvard. From 2004 he was at Harvard University, where he is a member of the Broad Institute and Professor of Medicine and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School with his laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Human Genetic Research). He is also a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Mootha was particularly concerned with mitochondria . Using an innovative combination of proteomics and gene expression analysis , he and his group identified numerous new mitochondrial proteins. His research also bore fruit in the study of metabolic diseases, both rare hereditary diseases (such as Leigh Syndrome French Canadian variant ) and, for example, type 2 diabetes. He also identified the mitochondrial unidirectional calcium transport channel. His methods are interdisciplinary and they also affect developments in bioinformatics (data mining in gene databases).

In 2004 he became a MacArthur Fellow . He received the Judson Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society , the Keilin Medal of the Biochemical Society, the Padma Shri Prize in India, and he received the King Faisal Prize in 2016 . He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences .

Web links

• Mootha Lab at Harvard
• Entry with the MacArthur Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the McArthur Foundation, he was 33 years old when he received the award in 2004