Nationality USA Fields Chemical biology | Role Professor Name Ronald Raines | |
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Known for Research on collagen, ribonucleases, protein chemistry, and biofuels Notable awards Helen Hay Whitney Fellow
Searle Scholar Award
Presidential Young Investigator Award
Shaw Scientist Award
Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, ACS
Guggenheim Fellow
AAAS Fellow
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, ACS
Emil Thomas Kaiser Award
Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow
Rao Makineni Lectureship
Welch Lectureship
Repligen Corporation Award in Chemistry of Biological Processes ACS
Jeremy Knowles Award, RSC
Humboldt Research Award
Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, ACS Education Harvard University (1982–1986), West Essex High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.