David Eisenberg

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David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist noted for his seminal contributions to structural and computational molecular biology. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics since the early 1990s, as well as a member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, Eisenberg's current experimental work focuses on the structural biology of amyloidogenic proteins, while his computational efforts largely center on the development of bioinformatic/proteomic methodologies for elucidation and analysis of protein interaction networks.

Scientific interests and contributions

Biographical information

  • Formal education and training
  • Harvard University (1961; research with J.T. Edsall)
  • D.Phil, Oxford University (1964; research with Coulson)
  • Postdoctoral research, Princeton University (1964-1966; with Walter Kauzmann)
  • Postdoctoral research, California Institute of Technology (1966-1969; with Richard E. Dickerson)
  • Appointments and positions held
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA
  • Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA Medical School
  • Director, UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics
  • Member, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA
  • Honors and awards
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences (1989; Biophysics & Computational Biology section)
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2000)
  • UCLA's Seaborg Medal (2004)
  • Harvard University's Westheimer Medal (2005)
  • ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (2008, as preceptor, student was Rebecca Anne Nelson)


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