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]
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]
From 2003-2006, Karchin was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Andrej Šali at the University of California, San Francisco. [3]
In 2025, Karchin was named by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as an ISCB Fellow. [4]
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