Valerie Daggett

Valerie Daggett is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Valerie D. Daggett
Education	Reed College, University of California, San Francisco
Known for	Large-scale simulations of protein folding
Scientific career
Institutions	Stanford University
Thesis	Molecular modelling of peptides and proteins (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Irwin Kuntz, Peter Kollman
Other academic advisors	Michael Levitt
Website	https://sites.uw.edu/daggett-lab

Education and career

Daggett has a B.S. from Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, advised by Irwin Kuntz and Peter Kollman, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University with Michael Levitt, a co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.^[1]

As of 2021, she is also the chief executive officer of AltPep, a biomedical startup that was a spinoff from her research at the University of Washington.^[2]

Research

Her laboratory focuses on work in molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and other biomolecules. Daggett is well known for large-scale simulations of protein folding, especially unfolding, and native state dynamics through her "dynameomics" project.^[3][4] In 2005, the Daggett laboratory was awarded a supercomputing grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, which was renewed for almost two million processor-hours in 2006;^[5] the group has also participated in Microsoft Research high-performance computing projects.^[6]

Awards and honors

In 2011, Daggett was named a fellow of the Biophysical Society.^[7] Daggett was one of two University of Washington scientists named 2015 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows.^[8]