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Thomas D. Grant

Assistant Professor of Structural Biology
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Computational drug discovery; how AI is used to solve protein structures

Portrait of Thomas Grant.

Thomas Grant is a computational biologist who can speak to the news media about how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the study of proteins, and how this could quicken the discovery of new drugs to treat disease.

He uses X-ray scattering and other analytical techniques, along with AI, to better understand protein structures. In particular, he investigates how proteins move and change shape in the body, which affects how they bind to drugs.

Grant is conducting his research through Empire AI, the New York State-based research consortium and supercomputing facility that is advancing artificial intelligence for the public good.

His goal is to bridge computational and experimental research to advance basic science, design new drugs, and develop AI tools to that will expedite protein structure determination.

CONTACT:

Thomas D. Grant, PhD
Assistant Professor of Structural Biology
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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