Prof. John Kuriyan
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley and Member, National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Kuriyan is also Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Juniata College, Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Gregory Petsko and Martin Karplus (Harvard University) on the dynamics of proteins. Dr. Kuriyan was appointed as an Assistant Professor at The Rockefeller University, New York in 1987, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1990. Dr. Kuriyan moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kuriyan is interested in the construction, mechanism, and regulation of the molecular machines and switching devices that carry out signal transduction and DNA replication.