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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the architecture, design, and implementation of the Anton protein-folding supercomputer.
  • 2009 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize For Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

David E. Shaw is affiliated with D. E. Shaw Research in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Frequent coauthors include Andrew G. Taube, Robert T. McGibbon, Michael Bergdorf, Fabrizio Giordanetto, and Alexander Donchev.

David E. Shaw has published extensively in notable venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Cancer Discovery, and Biophysical Journal.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Development of a Force Field for the Simulation of Single-Chain Proteins and Protein-Protein Complexes, 2020, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Molecular Basis of Small-Molecule Binding to α-Synuclein, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Structural basis for backtracking by the SARS-CoV-2 replication-transcription complex, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mechanism of Coupled Folding-upon-Binding of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Structural Basis of AZD9291 Selectivity for EGFR T790M, 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Among the awards received by David E. Shaw are the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, awarded in 2009 and 2014 for work on the Anton protein-folding supercomputer, membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for the architecture and implementation of Anton, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. The scientist was also named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Glide: a new approach for rapid, accurate docking and scoring. 1. Method and assessment of docking accuracy.

    Richard A Friesner;Jay L Banks;Robert B Murphy;Thomas A Halgren

  • Improved side‐chain torsion potentials for the Amber ff99SB protein force field

    Kresten Lindorff-Larsen;Stefano Piana;Kim Palmo;Paul Maragakis

  • A hierarchical approach to all-atom protein loop prediction.

    Matthew P. Jacobson;David L. Pincus;Chaya S. Rapp;Tyler J.F. Day

  • Scalable algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations on commodity clusters

    Kevin J. Bowers;Edmond Chow;Huafeng Xu;Ron O. Dror

  • How Fast-Folding Proteins Fold

    Kresten Lindorff-Larsen;Stefano Piana;Ron O. Dror;David E. Shaw;David E. Shaw

  • Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins

    David E. Shaw;David E. Shaw;Paul Maragakis;Kresten Lindorff-Larsen;Stefano Piana

  • PHASE: a new engine for pharmacophore perception, 3D QSAR model development, and 3D database screening: 1. Methodology and preliminary results

    Steven L. Dixon;Alexander M. Smondyrev;Eric H. Knoll;Eric H. Knoll;Shashidhar N. Rao

  • Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation

    David E. Shaw;Martin M. Deneroff;Ron O. Dror;Jeffrey S. Kuskin

  • Biomolecular Simulation: A Computational Microscope for Molecular Biology

    Ron O Dror;Robert M Dirks;J P Grossman;Huafeng Xu

  • How robust are protein folding simulations with respect to force field parameterization

    Stefano Piana;Kresten Lindorff-Larsen;David E. Shaw;David E. Shaw

  • Pathway and Mechanism of Drug Binding to G-Protein-Coupled Receptors

    Ron O. Dror;Albert C. Pan;Daniel H. Arlow;David W. Borhani

  • Long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations of protein structure and function.

    John L Klepeis;Kresten Lindorff-Larsen;Ron O Dror;David E Shaw;David E Shaw

  • The Dynamic Process of β2-Adrenergic Receptor Activation

    Rie Nygaard;Yaozhong Zou;Ron O. Dror;Thomas J. Mildorf

  • Structure and function of an irreversible agonist-β2 adrenoceptor complex

    Daniel M. Rosenbaum;Cheng Zhang;Joseph A. Lyons;Joseph A. Lyons;Ralph Holl

  • Developing a molecular dynamics force field for both folded and disordered protein states.

    Paul Robustelli;Stefano Piana;David Elliot Shaw;David Elliot Shaw

  • Structure and dynamics of the M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor

    Andrew C. Kruse;Jianxin Hu;Albert C. Pan;Daniel H. Arlow

  • A detailed and flexible cycle-accurate Network-on-Chip simulator

    Nan Jiang;Daniel U. Becker;George Michelogiannakis;James Balfour

  • Electronic mail system for displaying advertisement at local computer received from remote system while the local computer is off-line the remote system

    David E. Shaw;Charles E. Ardai;Brian D. Marsh;Mark A. Moraes

  • How does a drug molecule find its target binding site

    Yibing Shan;Eric T Kim;Michael P Eastwood;Ron O Dror

  • Water Dispersion Interactions Strongly Influence Simulated Structural Properties of Disordered Protein States

    Stefano Piana;Alexander G. Donchev;Paul Robustelli;David E. Shaw;David E. Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen University of Copenhagen
Andrew P. Mazar
Andrew P. Mazar Northwestern University
Cliff Young
Cliff Young Google (United States)
Brian K. Kobilka
Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University
Salvatore J. Stolfo
Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University
David E. Wemmer
David E. Wemmer University of California, Berkeley
John Kuriyan
John Kuriyan Vanderbilt University
Peter J. Parker
Peter J. Parker The Francis Crick Institute
William I. Weis
William I. Weis Stanford University
Roger K. Sunahara
Roger K. Sunahara University of California, San Diego

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