Nationality USA | Role Professor Name Ronald Raines | |
Notable awards Helen Hay Whitney FellowSearle Scholar AwardPresidential Young Investigator AwardShaw Scientist AwardPfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, ACSGuggenheim FellowAAAS FellowArthur C. Cope Scholar Award, ACSEmil Thomas Kaiser AwardRoyal Society of Chemistry FellowRao Makineni LectureshipWelch LectureshipRepligen Corporation Award in Chemistry of Biological Processes ACSJeremy Knowles Award, RSCHumboldt Research AwardRalph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, ACS Education Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada People also search for Jeremy R. Knowles, Sheng Ding, Daniel M. Pinkas, Annelise E. Barron | ||
Doctoral advisor Jeremy R. Knowles | ||
Ronald T. Raines is an American chemical biologist. He is the Firmenich Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Education
Raines graduated in 1976 from West Essex High School in North Caldwell, New Jersey. He received Sc.B. degrees in chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, doing undergraduate research with Christopher T. Walsh. He earned A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry at Harvard University with Jeremy R. Knowles, the title of his doctoral thesis being Energetics of Enzymatic Catalysis: Triosephosphate Isomerase. He was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco with William J. Rutter. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1989 until 2017, when he joined the faculty at MIT. He was a Visiting Associate in Chemistry at Caltech in 2009.
Career
Raines has made the following noteworthy contributions.
Raines is a founder of Quintessence Biosciences, Inc. and Hyrax Energy, Inc., and he serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals ACS Chemical Biology; Bioconjugate Chemistry; Peptide Science; Protein Engineering, Design & Selection; and Scientific Advisory Board of the Keystone Symposia.