Dorothee Kern

Dorothee Kern
Dorothee Kern
Born	19 January 1966 (age 58); Halle, Germany
Spouse	Gunther Kern
Children	Julia Kern; Nadja Kern;
Awards	Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (2003); Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award (2004);
Academic background
Education	Martin Luther University; UC Berkeley;
Thesis	NMR-spektroskopische Untersuchungen zur Dynamik der Cis-trans-Isomerisierung am Prolin und deren Katalyse durch Cyclophilin (1995)
Academic work
Discipline	Biochemistry
Institutions	Brandeis University

Dorothee Kern, (born 1966) is a professor of Biochemistry at Brandeis University and former player for the East German national basketball team.

In 2016, she cofounded Relay Therapeutics, a Massachusetts-based drug research company studying the motion of proteins using genomic data and computational biology. In 2020, she cofounded MOMA Therapeutics, a company working on drug discovery.

In 2017 she became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a scientific advisory body to the German government and citizens that serves as a liaison between the German scientific community and the rest of the world.

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