James A Spudich is an American scientist and professor.
11 Facts About James Spudich
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James Spudich is the Douglass M and Nola Leishman Professor of Biochemistry and of Cardiovascular Disease at Stanford University and works on the molecular basis of muscle contraction.
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James Spudich was awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2012 with Michael Sheetz and Ronald Vale.
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James Spudich is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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James Spudich was born in Benld, Illinois of Croatian ancestry.
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James Spudich later did his postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Charles Yanofsky and at MRC in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology with Hugh Huxley.
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James Spudich's research is focused on studying molecular motors particularly myosin.
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James Spudich started at UCSF and then came to Stanford as a professor of Structural biology in 1977.
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James Spudich co-founded MyoKardia in 2012 which was acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2020 for $13.1 billion.
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James Spudich was the president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 1989.
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James Spudich met his wife Annamma when they were both at the Marine Biology Lab with Hastings.