Dr. Das is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University
School of Medicine and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute. After training in particle physics and cosmology at Harvard,
Cambridge, University College London, and Stanford, Dr. Das did
postdoctoral research in computa/onal protein folding at the University
of Washington with David Baker. On returning to Stanford, Dr. Das set up his lab to focus on computer
modeling and design of RNA molecules, which underlie important molecular machines in biology and
medicine. As a core part of this research, Dr. Das leads Eterna, an open science planorm that
crowdsources intractable RNA design problems to 250,000 players of an online videogame and provides
scoring feedback based on actual wet-lab experiments.