Citizenship American Name B. Pettitt | Alma mater University of Houston | |
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Institutions University of Texas Medical Branch, Baylor College of Medicine Academic advisors Martin Karplus (Harvard University)
Peter J. Rossky (University of Texas) Institution University of Texas Medical Branch, Baylor College of Medicine | ||
B. Montgomery "Monte" Pettitt is the Director of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, holder of the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, and tenured Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as well as the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at UTMB. He is also affiliated with and former director of the The W. M. Keck Center at Rice University, and a faculty member of the Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) program at Baylor College of Medicine. At the University of Houston, he was the Hugh Roy and Lille Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, as well as the director of its Institute for Molecular Design.
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Early life and education
He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Houston in December 1975, and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Houston in May 1980. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (1980-1983) under the tutelage of Dr. Peter J. Rossky and then at Harvard University (1983-1985) under the tutelage of Nobel Laureate, Dr. Martin Karplus.
Career
In 2004, he was affiliated with the Institute for Molecular Design at the University of Houston, the The W.M. Keck Center at Rice University and the Ph.D. program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) at Baylor College of Medicine. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.