Naomi Chayen | |
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| Education | |
| Known for | Innovations in protein crystallization methodology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Structural biology |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Studies on stimulus-response coupling in smooth muscle (1983) |
Naomi Chayen is a biochemist and structural biologist. She is a professor of Biomedical Sciences at Imperial College London, where she leads the Crystallization Group in Computational and Systems Medicine. She is best known for developing the microbatch method and inventing novel nucleants for protein crystallization which have been applied to high-throughput screening for rational drug design.