George Makhatadze

Constellation Chair

Dr. Makhatadze completed his postdoctoral work at the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University before moving to his first faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University. After three years at Texas Tech, he moved to the Penn State University College of Medicine, where he was Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and directed a graduate program in Chemical Biology. Dr. Makhatadze joined Rensselaer in 2007 as a Constellation Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Biophysical Society, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and the Protein Society. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has served on the editorial boards for the Biochemica et Biophysica Acta, the Biophysical Journal, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Makhatadze is currently serving on the editorial boards of the Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences: Protein Folding, Misfolding and Degradation, PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. He is also a past and present member of the scientific review committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Makhatadze has mentored more than 20 PhD students, who have gone on to achieve prominent positions in both academia and industry.