Bio


My personal research is focused on the development of new techniques, specialized instrumentation, and new algorithms that advance macromolecular X-ray crystallography methods at synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) sources to elucidate the relationships of protein structure to biological function. This includes higher throughput methods for biomolecule structure determination, compound screening, and structure-based drug design. Further, I am developing new instrumentation and supporting automation to study protein dynamics using crystallography and cryoEM.

Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/aina.cohen.1/bibliography/46890833/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending.

Current Role at Stanford


Division Director, Structural Molecular Biology (SMB), Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
Director of the X-ray-Accelerated Medicines Development (XMeD) consortium, funded by the DOE to advance US Biopreparedness
Technical Leader of the LCLS-MFX Standard Goniometer Setup for Serial Macromolecular Crystallography, The Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory