Loren Dean Williams | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Washington, Duke University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biophysics, biochemistry, astrobiology |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Barbara Ramsay Shaw |
| Website | https://ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu/~lw26/ |
Loren Dean Williams is a biophysicist, biochemist, astrobiologist, and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. His research seeks to understand the structural basis for macromolecular reactions, from the role of nucleic acids as targets of chemotherapeutics to the ancestral biochemistry of the ribosome during the origin of life.