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Stephen K. Burley

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Rutgers

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University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he serves as Director of the RCSB PDB, the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, and the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory. Also a member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, where he co-leads the Cancer Pharmacology Research Program. Expert in structural biology, proteomics, bioinformatics, structure- and fragment-based drug discovery, and clinical oncology, with more than 370 publications and over 1,200 experimental structures deposited in the PDB.

wwPDB role

Principal Investigator for RCSB PDB, the US member of the wwPDB consortium. In this role he is the senior scientific lead for PDB operations in the Americas and has been central to wwPDB governance through multiple AC cycles.

Affiliations

  • Rutgers — University Professor, Henry Rutgers Chair (2013-)
  • RCSB PDB — Director
  • Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine — Director
  • Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory — Director
  • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey — Member, Co-Lead Cancer Pharmacology Research Program

Training

  • BSc Physics and Mathematics, University of Western Ontario (1980)
  • DPhil Structural Biology, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar)
  • MD, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program

Committees & service

  • wwPDB — Principal Investigator (RCSB PDB)

Honors

  • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
  • Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow, American Crystallographic Association
  • Fellow, The Protein Society
  • NJEdge 2024 Research Impact Award
  • Rutgers Chancellor Award for Global Impact (2025-2026)

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