Ruth Nussinov is an Israeli-American biologist, born in Rehovot, who is a senior principal scientist and principal investigator at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health and was formerly a professor at Tel Aviv University. In 1978 she proposed the first dynamic programming approach to predicting the secondary structure of nucleic acids, now known as the Nussinov algorithm. Her later work on molecular recognition and allostery argued that proteins exist as many pre-existing conformations rather than one fixed shape. She has edited Current Opinion in Structural Biology and PLOS Computational Biology, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
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is an Israeli-American biologist born in Rehovot
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National Academy of Sciences (2025) European Molecular Biology Organization, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) member (2024) American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow (2021) American Physical Society, American Physical Society Fellow Award (2020) ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2018) ISCB Fellow (2013) Biophysical Society, Biophysical Society Fellow Award (2011)
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Nussinov proposed the first dynamic programming approach for nucleic acid secondary structure prediction, this method is now known as the Nussinov algorithm.
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Nussinov proposed the first dynamic programming approach for nucleic acid secondary structure prediction, this method is now known as the Nussinov algorithm.
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