Bruce Randall Donald was born on 1958 and is an American computer scientist and computational biologist.
11 Facts About Bruce Donald
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Bruce Donald is the James B Duke Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry at Duke University.
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Bruce Donald joined the Cornell University Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor in 1987.
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At Cornell, Donald received tenure in 1993, and served as associate professor of computer science at Cornell University until 1998.
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Currently Donald is the James B Duke Professor of Computer Science, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University and in the School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.
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In 2015, Bruce Donald was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for contributions to computational molecular biology.
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Bruce Donald has developed numerous algorithms for protein design which have been successfully tested experimentally in the wet lab.
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Bruce Donald has developed algorithms for determining the structures of biomedically significant proteins.
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Bruce Donald has designed many algorithms and computational protocols to extract structural information from NMR data, and used that information to compute structures of globular proteins and symmetric homo-oligomers.
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Bruce Donald is the author of Algorithms in Structural Molecular Biology, a textbook published by MIT Press.
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Bruce Donald has supervised many students and postdocs, many of whom are now professors in reputed universities such as MIT, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Washington, Seattle, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Middlebury College and University of Toronto, and researchers at organizations such as NIAID, NIST, IBM, Sandia National Laboratories.