About me
Research staff member
Research lab: Almaden Research Center
Dr. Pitera is a research staff member in Science and Technology at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His research focuses on the use of computer simulation to address questions in biology and chemistry, particularly in the areas of protein folding, molecular recognition, and self-assembly. Dr. Pitera received undergraduate training in Biology and Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where he worked in Dr. Pamela Bjorkman’s protein crystallography group. Subsequently, he pursued graduate studies in Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Kollman. In Dr. Kollman’s group, he developed an interest in the use of biomolecular simulation and free energy calculations in the rational design of proteins and pharmaceuticals. He pursued similar work in a postdoctoral position with Prof. Dr. Wilfred van Gunsteren at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, where his research focused on novel methods to calculate free energies for ligand design. Since February of 2001 Dr. Pitera has worked as a member of the IBM Blue Gene Project Science and Application team. Dr. Pitera is also an adjunct assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
Last updated 9 Jun 2006