Rommie Amaro
Biography
Rommie E. Amaro is a Professor and Shuler Scholar in the
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University
of California, San Diego. She received her B.S. (Chemical
Engineering, 1999) and Ph.D. (Chemistry, 2005) from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a NIH
postdoctoral fellow with Andy McCammon (UCSD). Rommie is
the recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award, the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers, the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty
Award, the ACS Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in
Chemistry National Lecturer, and the 2016 Corwin Hansch
Award. She is the Director of the NIH P41 National
Biomedical Computation Resource and a co-Director of the
NIH U01 Drug Design Data Resource. Her research is broadly
concerned with the development and application of
state-of-the-art multiscale computational methods to
address outstanding questions in drug discovery and
molecular and cellular biophysics.
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