About the author

Gregory Petsko studied chemistry and classics at Princeton University, before attending Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar where he received his D. Phil. in molecular biophysics in 1973.

Petsko is a renowned structural biochemist, and is currently the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry at Brandeis University, where his research with Professor Dagmar Ringe focuses on the three-dimensional structures of proteins and their biochemical functions. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Neurology and Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

Petsko was the president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2008 - 2010, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995, the Institute of Medicine in 2001, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and the American Philosophical Society in 2010.