Andrej Sali

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Andrej Sali (born 1963, Kranj, Slovenia) is a structural and computational biologist. He joined the faculty of the Rockefeller University in 1995, following his postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Since 2003, he has been the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as an editor for the Structure.

Education: B.S., University of Ljubljana; Ph.D., Birkbeck College, University of London, 1991 (working with Tom Blundell); Postdoc, Harvard University (working with Martin Karplus).

He is using computation grounded in the laws of physics and evolution to study the structure and function of proteins. For example, he developed comparative protein structure modeling by satisfaction of spatial restraints, implemented in the program MODELLER.