Dr. Pande is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology (by courtesy).

Professor Pande’s current research centers on the development and application of novel simulation techniques to address problems in chemical biology. In particular, he has pioneered novel distributed computing methodology to break fundamental barriers in the simulation of kinetics and thermodynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. Using his “Folding@Home” (http://folding.stanford.edu) project, Prof. Pande has, for the first time, directly simulated protein folding dynamics with quantitative comparisons with experiment, often considered a “holy grail” of computational biology.