Michael Levitt, PhD, Professor and Chair of the medical school's Department of Structural Biology, joined the Stanford medical faculty in 1987.

Dr. Levitt's current research focuses on protein folding, large-scale prediction of structure from sequence, computational geometry of biological molecules and genomic analysis. Levitt's work is geared toward answering such questions as: what are the fundamental interactions that stabilize biological macromolecules, how can protein structure be predicted from sequence and how do protein sequences evolve.