Remo Rohs

Remo Rohs, founding chair of the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology and professor of quantitative and computational biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy, computer science and medicine, has been elected a Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. The academy noted Rohs’ research in AI-based computational biology and his development of several important tools, including DeepPBS for predicting protein-DNA binding specificity and DrugHIVE for designing drug-like molecules that are not available in current drug libraries.