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Stephanie Wankowicz

Scientific Program Director

Stephanie is the Scientific Program Director of Prism, setting and executing the project's overall scientific vision and strategy. She is also an Adjunct Assitant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Before leading Prism, she was an Assistant Professor of Biophysics, Biochemistry, & Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, an Assistant Professional Researcher at UCSF, and a computational biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Broad Institute. She has been awarded the George Sheldrick Award in Structural Science, NSF GFRP, D.E. Shaw Computational Chemistry Fellowship, Intersections Science Fellowship, UCSF Mentorship Award, and Penn Rising Stars in Biophysics and Biochemistry. She received her PhD in Biophysics from UCSF and her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.