Stephen K. Burley

Stephen Kevin Burley is a British-born scientist, naturalized in both Canada and the United States. He is known as an expert in structural biology, proteomics, structure/fragment based drug discovery, and clinical medicine/oncology.

He joined Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2013, where he is a University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair. Burley directs the RCSB Protein Data Bank (a member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank), the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, and the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory.

Burley has over 360 publications and more than 1,200 experimental protein structures available in the Protein Data Bank archive.

Education and Career

Following undergraduate training in physics and mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, Burley received an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in the joint Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program and, as a Rhodes scholar, received a D.Phil in Structural Biology from Oxford University. He trained in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and carried out post-doctoral research with Gregory A. Petsko and Nobel Laureate William N. Lipscomb at MIT and Harvard, respectively.

He joined the faculty at The Rockefeller University in 1990, and became an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1994-2002) and the Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor (1997-2002). During time on the Rockfeller faculty, he also served as Founding Director of the Pels Family Center, Chair of the Academic Senate, and Deputy for Academic Affairs reporting directly to the President of the University.

With William J. Rutter, Nobel Laureate David Baker, and others at the University of California at San Francisco and Rockefeller, Burley co-founded Prospect Genomics, Inc.