Since early 2008, I've been a management consultant specializing in the Life Sciences in the Boston, Massachusetts office of L.E.K. Consulting. At L.E.K. I advise companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical device areas on fundamental questions of business strategy.
From 2004 to 2007 I held a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellowship entitled Experimental and computational characterization of protein evolutionary landscapes in Dan Hartl's group in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. During the last year of this fellowship I was a visiting scholar in Jim Collin's Biodynamics Lab at Boston University. My postdoctoral research focused on characterizing the selective pressures and constraints on protein evolution due to structure, folding, and interaction with other molecules. The experimental aspect of this project was carried out on the antibiotic-resistant enzyme beta-lactamase in the bacterium Escherichia coli.
I completed my Ph.D. in the Crystallography and Biocomputing Group run by Professor Sir Tom Blundell in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, supported by a U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2002) and a British Marshall Scholarship (2000). My thesis work, entitled ab initio conformational sampling for protein structure determination, analysis, and prediction, was part of the RAPPER project.
Before Cambridge, I double majored in Computer Science and Mathematics at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. And long, long ago, I was a student at Ames High School, in Ames, Iowa.
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