Barry Stoddard The 48th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2023

Barry Stoddard

Barry Stoddard is a native of the Northwest region of the United States: he was born in Montana and has lived in Northern Idaho and Washington State for most of his life. He attended Whitman College and graduated with a B.A. degree in Chemistry and a minor in Biology in 1985. He then earned his doctorate in 1990 in Biophysical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Following postdoctoral work at the University of California in Berkeley, Dr. Stoddard joined the faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle in December 1992, where he has supervised a research laboratory ever since. He was promoted to Full Professor at the Hutch in 1999. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Director of the NCI Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cancer in Seattle, and the Senior Editor of the Journal Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press). Dr. Stoddard’s research interests are the structure, mechanism, and engineering of proteins and enzymatic catalysts for basic research and biomedical applications. His lab conducts wide-ranging research on gene-specific endonucleases, nucleic acid enzymes, structural enzymology and protein engineering. He has coauthored over 180 research articles and reviews in these fields since 1990. In 2004, he was one of several recipients of the Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for published work in the field of protein engineering. In 2019 he was named by Nature Biotechnology as one of the 15 ‘most productive and collaborative’ investigators in the field of Genome Engineering (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0275-z).