In an unusual recruiting coup, Rice University announced on Thursday that it has hired three prominent researchers from the University of California at San Diego to study the development of cancer.
Rice will bring on Herbert Levine, José N. Onuchic, and Peter G. Wolynes, a team that Rice’s provost called “the center of gravity of theoretical biophysics in this country.” They have used concepts in physics and chemistry to help answer basic questions in biology, such as how proteins are assembled.
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