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Director, Institute for Molecular Design
A Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and professor of Physics, Computer Science, Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston (UH), B. Montgomery Pettitt has received numerous awards and fellowships during his 22-year career.
He has acted as mentor to more than 30 graduate and post-doctoral students, and has written more than 75 papers in the arenas of Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Computer Science.
Dr. Pettitt's multifaceted interests include the development of methods for calculating internal conformational structure and interpreting conformation equilibria of biomolecules in an aqueous environment; stability and thermodynamics of multiple DNA/RNA structures; and peptide/protein folding via stability criteria.
Currently, he is studying the structural and thermodynamic description of neat polar molecular fluids, including water, ions, polar biomolecular solutes and other condensed phase systems, through integral equation and density functional methods. Dr. Pettitt is also developing theoretical techniques for the description of the thermodynamics and structure of biomolecules in anisotropic fluids, and computer simulation methodology for material science and biotechnology.
Under Dr. Pettit's directorship, the Institute for Molecular Design, part of UH's TLC2 initiative, combines high-performance computing with theoretical chemistry to produce computer-aided molecular design and biomedical research. Its scientists have access to some of the largest non-secured supercomputing resources in the nation.
Dr. Pettitt holds a PhD from the University of Houston in physical chemistry, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas and Harvard University.
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