Raymond Stevens, PhD

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Education

B.A., Chemistry, University of Southern Maine, 1981
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Southern California, 1988

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Professional Experience

1989-1992 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chemistry Department, Harvard University
1992-2000 Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
2000-present, Professor of Molecular Biology and Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute
Founder of 4 NIH centers and 3 biotechnology companies.

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Awards & Professional Activities

Sidhu Award from Pittsburgh Diffraction Society, 1992
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994
Beckman Foundation, Young Investigator Award, 1994
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award, 1995
Society of Bioinorganic Chemistry Award, "Metals in Biology" Gordon Conference, 1997
Jouan Robotics Award, 2003
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Southern California, 2005
Founding Scientist Syrrx, Inc. (1999) and MemRx Corporation (2003), acquired by Chiron Corporation.

Member, Editorial Boards:
Protein Expression and Purification, 2001-present
Biodrugs, 2001-present
Drug Discovery Today, 2002-present
The Protein Journal, 2004-present

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Selected Publications

Cherezov, Vadim; Rosenbaum, Daniel M.; Hanson, Mich A.; Rasmussen, Søren G.; Thian, Foon S.; Kobilka, Tong S.; Choi, Hee- J.; Kuhn, Peter; Weis, W I.; Kobilka, Brian K.; Stevens, Raymond C. High-resolution crystal structure of an engineered human beta2-adrenergic G protein-coupled receptor. 2007, 318, 1258-65.

Rosenbaum, Daniel M.; Cherezov, Vadim; Hanson, Mich A.; Rasmussen, Søren G.; Thian, Foon S.; Kobilka, Tong S.; Choi, Hee- J.; Yao, Xiao- J.; Weis, W I.; Stevens, Raymond C.; Kobilka, Brian K. GPCR engineering yields high-resolution structural insights into beta2-adrenergic receptor function. 2007, 318, 1266-73.

Hanson, Mich A.; Cherezov, Vadim; Griffith, Mark T.; Roth, Christopher B.; Jaakola, Veli- P.; Chien, Ellen Y.; Velasquez, Jeffrey; Kuhn, Peter; Stevens, Raymond C. A specific cholesterol binding site is established by the 2.8 A structure of the human beta2-adrenergic receptor. 2008, 16, 897-905.

Cherezov, Vadim; Liu, Jeffrey; Griffith, Mark; Hanson, Mich A.; Stevens, Raymond C. LCP-FRAP Assay for Pre-Screening Membrane Proteins for in Meso Crystallization. 2008, 8, 4307-4315.

Hanson, Mich A.; Stevens, Raymond C. Discovery of new GPCR biology: one receptor structure at a time. 2009, 17, 8-14.

Michino, Mayako; Abola, Enrique; Brooks, Char L.; Dixon, J S.; Moult, John; Stevens, Raymond C. Community-wide assessment of GPCR structure modelling and ligand docking: GPCR Dock 2008. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2009, 8, 455-63.