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Professor Marshall

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Garland R. Marshall is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University's School of Medicine. Professor Marshall is formerly the Director of the Center for Molecular Design in the Institute for Biomedical Computing. He is a founding member of the newly formed Center for Computational Biology, a joint effort by the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, of Biomedical Engineering and of Genetics. Prof. Marshall also serves on the Steering Committee for graduate studies in Computational Biology.

Prof. Marshall has the distinction of being the first graduate student of R. Bruce Merrifield, Nobel Laureate of Rockefeller University and has been involved with the development of solid-phase peptide chemistry. Upon his arrival at Washington University in St. Louis in 1966, Marshall constructed the second automated peptide synthesizer; the first being on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. He began at that time to utilize the primitive computers available for molecular graphics and conformational analysis. This pioneering effort led to a software package SYBYL for computer-aided drug design that was licensed to Tripos, Inc., a software company that he founded in 1979. He terminated his participation in Tripos in 1987 to devote his full attention to his academic research. In 1995, he founded Metaphore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to focus on metals as therapeutics. For a description of his current scientific interests, please visit his Lab Home Page.