Dorothee Kern
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Dorothee Kern, (born 1966) is a professor of Biochemistry at Brandeis University[2] and former player for the East German national basketball team.[3]
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Born | 19 January 1966 (1966-01-19) (age 58)[1] Halle, Germany |
Spouse | Gunther Kern |
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Thesis | NMR-spektroskopische Untersuchungen zur Dynamik der Cis-trans-Isomerisierung am Prolin und deren Katalyse durch Cyclophilin (1995) |
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Discipline | Biochemistry |
Institutions | Brandeis University |
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In 2016, she cofounded Relay Therapeutics,[4] a Massachusetts-based drug research company studying the motion of proteins using genomic data and computational biology.[5] In 2020, she cofounded MOMA Therapeutics, a company working on drug discovery.[6]
In 2017 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[7] a scientific advisory body to the German government and citizens that serves as a liaison between the German scientific community and the rest of the world.[8]