Rhiju Das, PhD

Lab Head

Rhiju Das, Stanford University

Pronouns: he/him

I'm a faculty member in Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. After training in particle physics and cosmology at Harvard, Cambridge, University College London, and Stanford, I did postdoctoral research in computational protein folding at the University of Washington with David Baker. On returning to Stanford, I set up a lab to focus on computer modeling and design of RNA molecules, which underlie important molecular machines in biology and medicine. As a core part of this research, I lead Eterna, an open science platform that crowdsources intractable RNA design problems to players of an online videogame and provides scoring feedback based on actual wet-lab experiments.