Vijay Pande

Vijay Pande

Vijay S. Pande is a biomedical scientist, a professor of chemistry, structural biology, and computer science at Stanford University, and is the Director of the Biophysics Program. He is best known for founding and directing Folding@home, a powerful distributed computing project in which volunteered computers and PlayStation 3s perform simulations of protein folding and computational drug design for disease research. He has also pioneered novel distributed computing methodology to break fundamental barriers in the simulation of kinetics and thermodynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. His current research also includes novel simulation methods for high-precision drug binding affinity calculations, protein design, and synthetic bio-mimetic polymers.