Bruce Tidor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruce Tidor is Professor of Biological Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He graduated with an A.B. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College in 1983, and then received a Marshall Scholar award to study at Oxford University's Wolfson College, where he earned an M.Sc. in Biochemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard in 1990 and moved to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where he started his independent research as a Whitehead Fellow. In 1994 he was appointed to the faculty at MIT. He serves as founding co-Director of MIT’s Computational and Systems Biology Initiative and also founded the associated PhD program.
Dr. Tidor's research focuses on the analysis of complex biological systems at the molecular and cellular level. Using molecular modeling, theory and computation, he explores the structure, function, and interactions of proteins and nucleic acids and the roles played by specific chemical groups in defining the stability and specificity of molecular interactions. Using cell-level models his group is exploring the relationship between network structure and biological function. He is actively involved in applying knowledge from modeling studies to rational design.