Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School
Info
Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (BCMP) at Harvard Medical School, with a primary appointment in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Research focus: mapping hotspots at protein-protein interaction (PPI) interfaces using solution NMR spectroscopy, NMR-based fragment and high-throughput screening, and biophysical and cell-based assays. Serves as Co-Chair of the wwPDB Scientific Advisory Committee alongside John Rubinstein.
wwPDB role
Affiliations
- Harvard Medical School — Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (BCMP)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Department of Cancer Biology
- Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program — faculty
Training
- BSc Chemistry, Madras Christian College
- MSc Chemistry, IIT-Madras
- PhD (2004), Wesleyan University, with Philip Bolton
- Postdoctoral fellow, Gerhard Wagner laboratory, Harvard Medical School
- Lecturer 2010; independent position 2016
Committees & service
- wwPDB Advisory Committee — Co-Chair, BMRB representative
Key Relationships
- Postdoctoral mentor: Gerhard Wagner (Harvard Medical School, senior NMR figure)
- PhD advisor: Philip Bolton (Wesleyan)
- NMR community intersection with Christina Redfield, Jeffrey Hoch, and Charles Schwieters on the current wwPDB AC
Sources
- Harvard BCMP profile: https://bcmp.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/haribabu-arthanari
- Arthanari Lab (Dana-Farber): https://labs.dana-farber.org/artlab/
- Harvard Biophysics: https://biophysics.fas.harvard.edu/people/haribabu-arthanari
- wwPDB 2025 Advisory Committee report: https://cdn.rcsb.org/wwpdb/docs/about/advisory/wwpdbac2025-report.pdf