- Ronald T. Raines
Ronald T. Raines (b.
August 13 ,1958 inMontclair, New Jersey ) is an American chemical biologist. He is the Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry and a Professor of Chemistry at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison .Raines received Sc.B. degrees in chemistry and biology at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , doing undergraduate research with Christopher T. Walsh. He received A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry atHarvard University withJeremy R. Knowles , the title of his doctoral thesis being "Energetics of Enzymatic Catalysis: Triosephosphate Isomerase". He was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at theUniversity of California, San Francisco with William J. Rutter. He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989.Raines has made notable contributions to the exploration and exploitation of proteins. He demonstrated that mammalian
ribonucleases can become potent cytotoxins and potential cancer chemotherapeutics. Raines discovered fundamental attributes of thecollagen triple helix, enabling him to assemble triple helices that are stronger and longer than any found in nature. He andLaura L. Kiessling developed the traceless Staudinger ligation as a means to couple synthetic peptides and thus synthesize proteins.Raines has been the research advisor of more than 25 doctorates and more than 20 postdoctorates. He is an author of more than 200 research papers, and an inventor on more than 10 US patents.
Raines has received the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry and Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the
American Chemical Society , the Emil Thomas Kaiser Award from the Protein Society, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and theRoyal Society of Chemistry .Raines is a founder of Quintessence Biosciences, Inc.External links
* [http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/raines/ The Raines group website]
* [http://www.quintbio.com Quintessence Biosciences, Inc.]Sources
* Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin [http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/raines/raines]
* Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin [http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/Raines.php]
*Searle Scholar [http://www.searlescholars.net/people/1990/raines.html]
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