Rachel Karchin
Rachel Karchin | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Evaluating Local Structure Alphabets for Protein Structure Prediction (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kevin Karplus[1] |
Rachel Karchin is a computational biologist working in computational cancer genomics. She is a professor of biomedical engineering, oncology and computer science at Johns Hopkins University.[2]
Early life and education
Karchin received her BS (1998) in computer engineering and her MS (2000) and PhD (2003) in computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] Her doctoral thesis, titled "Evaluating Local Structure Alphabets for Protein Structure Prediction" was supervised by Kevin Karplus.[1]
Career and research
From 2003-2006, Karchin was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Andrej Šali at the University of California, San Francisco.[3]
Awards and honours
In 2025, Karchin was named by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as an ISCB Fellow.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Rachel Karchin - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Rachel Karchin". Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ "Andrej Sali Lab". salilab.org. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ "March 11, 2025: ISCB Announces the 2025 Class of Fellows". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 21 July 2025.