Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Professor Tanja Kortemme, PhD, is leading groundbreaking efforts at UCSF to harness artificial intelligence for the design of entirely new proteins — with the potential to revolutionize how we treat diseases like cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.  

In a Q&A from the UCSF Newsroom, our vice dean of research explains how decades of federally funded research, along with UCSF’s collaborative, interdisciplinary culture, are accelerating the creation of AI-generated proteins that could become the next generation of medicines. 

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