Valerie Daggett
American biochemist
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Valerie Daggett is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.[1]
Valerie D. Daggett | |
|---|---|
| Education | Reed College, University of California, San Francisco |
| Known for | Large-scale simulations of protein folding |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Molecular modelling of peptides and proteins (1990) |
| Irwin Kuntz, Peter Kollman | |
Other academic advisors | Michael Levitt |
| Website | https://sites.uw.edu/daggett-lab |
Education and career
Daggett has a B.S. from Reed College in 1983.[2] She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, advised by Irwin Kuntz and Peter Kollman, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University with Michael Levitt, a co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[3]
As of 2021, she is also the chief executive officer of AltPep, a biomedical startup that was a spinoff from her research at the University of Washington.[4]
Research
Her laboratory focuses on work in molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and other biomolecules. Daggett is well known for large-scale simulations of protein folding, especially unfolding, and native state dynamics through her "dynameomics" project.[5][6] In 2005, the Daggett laboratory was awarded a supercomputing grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, which was renewed for almost two million processor-hours in 2006;[7] the group has also participated in Microsoft Research high-performance computing projects.[8]
Awards and honors
In 2011, Daggett was named a fellow of the Biophysical Society.[9] Daggett was one of two University of Washington scientists named 2015 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows.[10]