Vijay S. Pande

Pande is an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry and professor of structural biology and of computer science. He was also director of the biophysics program.[5]

Pande serves on the boards of Apeel Sciences, Bayesian Health, BioAge Labs, Citizen, Devoted Health, Freenome, Insitro, Nautilus Biotechnology, Nobell, Omada Health, Q.bio, and Scribe Therapeutics, a CRISPR company co-founded by 2020 Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. He has also been a founder and advisor to startups in Silicon Valley.[6]

Pande has written for TIME,[7] STAT News,[8] Fortune,[9] and the New York Times,[10] among others.

Pande graduated from Langley High School's class of 1988 while growing up in McLean, Virginia.[19] In 1992, Pande received his B.A. from Princeton University.[2][20] MIT awarded him a PhD in 1995.[2]

While in high school, Pande won fourth place in the 1988 Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a computer simulation of a space-based ballistic missile defense.[21]

After graduating from high school in 1988, Pande worked briefly at the video game development company Naughty Dog in the early 1990s in his late teens, serving as a co-programmer and designer on their 1991 release Rings of Power.[22][23] While Pande was attending MIT and Naughty Dog was based in Boston, he played the secret boss character in the 3DO fighting game Way of the Warrior.[24]

He is married, has two children and likes cats.[1]

In 2002, he was named a Frederick E. Terman Fellow and an award recipient of MIT's TR100. The following year, he was awarded the Henry and Camile Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award.[3] In 2004, he received a Technovator award from Global Indus Technovators in its Biotech/Med/Healthcare category.[25] In 2006, Pande was awarded the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from the Protein Society. In 2008, he was named "Netxplorateur of 2008".[25] Also in 2008 he was given the Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[2] Pande received the 2012 Michael and Kate Bárány Award for developing computational models for protein and RNA.[2][25] He is the second person to ever win both the "Protein Society Young Investigator Award" and "Biophysical Society Young Investigator" award.[26] In 2015, Pande received the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences, as well as the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished Chair in Chemistry.[27][28]

• Ramsundar, Bharath (2019). Deep Learning for the Life Sciences : Applying Deep Learning to Genomics, Microscopy, Drug Discovery, and More. Peter Eastman, Patrick Walters, Vijay Pande (First edition ed.).O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4920-3980-8
• Pande, Vijay (2012). Physical chemistry principles (Second edition ed.). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-4810-2733-5
• An introduction to Markov state models and their application to long timescale molecular simulation. Gregory R. Bowman, Vijay Pande, Frank Noé. Dordrecht. 2014. Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-7606-7
• Grosberg, A. IU. (1994). Statistical physics of macromolecules. A. R. Khokhlov. New York: AIP Press. ISBN 1-56396-071-0

• Andreessen Horowitz General Partner profile
• Times of London podcast interview
• Folding@home website
• Professor Pande’s Google Scholar Page
• Interview of Pande
• Vijay S. Pande at MobyGames