Prof. John Kuriyan
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Department of Chemistry, University of California
Prof. Kuriyan is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator and 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. Prof. 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. He later moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. His research focuses primarily on construction, mechanism, and regulation of molecular machines and switching devices that carry out signal transduction and DNA replication.
Prof. Kuriyan is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (USA), Foreign Member of The Royal Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.