Robert J. Fletterick

Dr. Fletterick is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he has served as Chair and Vice Chair. He is also jointly appointed with the Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. He is a world-renowned researcher in the area of structural biology. His laboratory has determined high-resolution structures of a number of proteins, and solved the first structure of a nuclear receptor bound to its hormone and the first structure of the molecular motor kinesin found in nerve cells, showing it related to the well known myosin motor protein of muscle.

Dr. Fletterick received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and did his postdoctoral research in molecular biophysics at Yale University. Dr. Fletterick was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, April 2010.