One elliptoid to Control of them All: Peptide Infectives
Annlise Barron
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
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Dr. Barron is the W.M. Keck Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. She was trained as a chemical engineer at the University of Washington (B.S.) and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D., with Prof. Harvey W. Blanch), and was a Pharmaceutical Chemistry postdoc with Prof. Ken A. Dill (UCSF) and Dr. Ronald N. Zuckermann (Chiron Corp.). She has served on the faculty at Stanford since 2007, and prior to that, served on the Chemical & Biological Engineering faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL for 10 years (1997-2007). Dr. Barron has been awarded an NIH Pioneer Award through NIA (2020), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) through NIH / NHGRI (1999), Beckman Young Investigator Award (1999), and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1998), among other awards. Dr. Barron was the youngest scientist ever to serve on the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH, under Dr. Elias Zerhouni. She has more than 172 publications and a current H-index of 46 (Web of Science, All Databases), and serves on the advisory boards of several biotechnology companies. She is proud to be 1/4 Quechua (Native American people of Bolivia), 1/4 Hispanic, 1/4 Swedish, 1/4 English, and 100% American.