1. Gregory A Petsko was born on August 7,1948 and is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
11 Facts About Gregory Petsko
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Gregory Petsko is currently Professor of Neurology at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Gregory Petsko formerly had an endowed professorship in Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and is still an adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, and is the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor, Emeritus, in biochemistry and chemistry at Brandeis University.
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Gregory Petsko has made key contributions to the fields of protein crystallography, biochemistry, biophysics, enzymology, and neuroscience.
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Gregory Petsko received a Rhodes Scholarship, and obtained his doctorate in Molecular Biophysics from Merton College, Oxford supervised by David Phillips, studying the structure and mechanism of the enzyme triosephosphate isomerase.
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Gregory Petsko did a brief postdoctoral fellowship in Paris with Pierre Douzou, studying enzymology at low temperatures.
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Gregory Petsko is past-president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Gregory Petsko is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Gregory Petsko is a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and has an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University.
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Gregory Petsko was appointed at Weill Cornell Medical College as the director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute and the Arthur J Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, and at Cornell University as adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering, and retained an appointment at Brandeis University as Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Emeritus.
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Gregory Petsko was the author of a monthly column in Genome Biology modelled after an amusing column in Current Biology penned by Sydney Brenner.