Pamela J. Bjorkman Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Pamela J. Bjorkman is a 64-year-old American biochemist. She was born in 1956 in the United States. She is a professor of biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the California Institute of Technology. Bjorkman received her B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University in 1983. She then completed postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bjorkman is best known for her work on the structure and function of the T-cell receptor, a protein that plays a key role in the immune system. She has also studied the structure and function of other proteins, including the influenza virus hemagglutinin and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope glycoprotein. Bjorkman has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As of 2021, Pamela J. Bjorkman's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Bjorkman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry at the University of Oregon, under the guidance of Hayes Griffith and Patricia Jost. She received her PhD in biochemistry at Harvard University in 1984, where she worked in the laboratory of Don Wiley. She stayed on in Wiley's lab in a postdoctoral position where she ultimately solved the first crystal structure of an MHC protein - the HLA-A2 human histocompatibility antigen. This work was published in 1987, first at 3.5Å resolution (PDB entry 1HLA) and then refined at 2.6Å (PDB entry 3HLA). Bjorkman continued her postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the laboratory of Mark Davis, studying the T-cell receptors that recognize antigens presented in the binding groove of MHC proteins. In 1989, she joined the Biology faculty at the California Institute of Technology as an associate professor. She earned tenure as an associate professor in 1995 and was promoted to full professor in 1998. She was an HHMI investigator from 1989–2015.

Pamela Jane Bjorkman (also spelled Pamela J. Björkman born 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is an American biochemist. She is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Her research centers on the study of the three-dimensional structures of proteins related to Class I MHC, or Major Histocompatibility Complex, proteins of the immune system and proteins involved in the immune responses to viruses . Bjorkman is most well known as a pioneer in the field of structural biology.