Rommie E. Amaro | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2010
San Diego 78th District Woman of the Year, 2015 ACS Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry National Lecturer, 2016 Corwin Hansch Award, Hansch-Fujita Society, 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID19, 2020 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational biophysics |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
| Thesis | Investigating the Structure and Function of IGP Synthase |
| Doctoral advisor | Zaida Luthey-Schulten |
| Website | amarolab |
Rommie E. Amaro is a professor and endowed chair of chemistry and biochemistry and the director of the National Biomedical Computation Resource at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on development of computational methods in biophysics for applications to drug discovery.[1][2]