Benoît Roux

Benoît Roux
Benoît Roux
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Montreal; Harvard University[1]
Awards	Rutherford Memorial Medal
	Scientific career
Fields	Biophysics
Institutions	University of Montreal; Cornell University; University of Chicago
Thesis	Theoretical Study of Ion Transport in the Gramicidin A Channel (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Karplus
Website	http://thallium.bsd.uchicago.edu/

Benoît Roux is an Amgen Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Chicago. He has previously taught at University of Montreal and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Benoît Roux was a recipient of the 1998 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, awarded by the Royal Society of Canada.[2]

Life and career

Roux obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics from the University of Montreal in 1981 and 1984 respectively. In 1990s he moved across the border to the United States, where he attended Harvard University from which he graduated in 1990. Prior to immigrating to the United States he served at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission from 1991 to 1992 and was a Foreign Research Fellow at the Centre D’Etudes. Since 2005 he serves as a research scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a department of the Argonne National Laboratory.[3]

His laboratory at the University of Chicago mostly uses theoretical techniques, such as classical molecular dynamics, to understand the functioning of biological systems at the molecular level. His research has investigated structure, dynamics, and the function of biological macromolecular systems such as ion channels, receptors, and protein kinases.[4]

He is a pioneer in the study of membrane proteins using molecular dynamics with explicit phospholipid molecules and solvent.[5][6] His laboratory has also developed novel computational methods to improve efficiency and applicability of theoretical investigations to molecular recognition phenomena. His work has bridged theory and experiment in biophysics by employing ever-increasing computational power to further the understanding of the molecular basis of life.

In 1996, he co-authored Biological Membranes: A Molecular Perspective from Computation and Experiment with Kenneth M. Merz.[7]

Journal of Computational Chemistry: Special Issue on Membrane Protein Simulations and Free Energy Approaches in honor of Professor Benoit Roux's 60th birthday[8]
Rutherford Memorial Medal, Royal Society of Canada (1998)[9]
Fellow of the Biophysical Society of Canada (2017)[10]

http://bmb.uchospitals.edu/faculty/benoit-roux
"Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships". University of Chicago. January 27, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
"Benoît Roux". University of Chicago. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
"Benoît Roux". University of Chicago. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
Ion transport in a model gramicidin channel. Structure and thermodynamics. B. Roux and M. Karplus Biophys. J. 1991;59(5):961-981.
Theoretical and computational models of ion channels. B. Roux Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2002;12(2):182-189.
Merz, Kenneth M.; Roux, Benoît (1996). Biological Membranes: A Molecular Perspective from Computation and Experiment. Birkhäuser. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-8580-6. ISBN 1468485806. S2CID 30908633.
"Special Issue: Membrane Protein Simulations and Free Energy Approaches: In honor of Professor Benoit Roux's 60th birthday". Journal of Computational Chemistry. 41 (5): C1, 379–481. February 15, 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
"Past Award Winners". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
Christoff, Craig (April 19, 2017). "2017 Fellow of the BSC: Dr. Benoît Roux". Biophysical Society of Canada. Retrieved May 11, 2019.

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