Robert M Stroud
University of California San Francisco, USA
Biography
Robert M Stroud is Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California in San Francisco. He focuses on the molecular basis for function of trans-membrane transporters and channels, and on structure-assisted drug discovery. He has contributed to fundamental mechanisms of receptor proteins, lipid-protein interactions, enzymes and protein-RNA recognition. He has obtained his BA and MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (UK), his PhD is from University of London (JD Bernal). From a Post-doctoral and Professorship in Biological Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, he came to UCSF. His research involves structural determination engineering and function of molecules and cells using X-ray crystallography, electron-cryo microscopy, computational simulations, spectroscopy, super-resolution optical microscopy. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), Fellow and Former President of the US Biophysical Society.