| Julie Forman-Kay | |
| Workplaces: | University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yale University |
| Known For: | Intrinsically disordered proteins |
Julie Forman-Kay is a scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and professor at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the dynamics, interactions, structures, and functions of intrinsically disordered proteins.
Forman-Kay obtained a degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.[1] She carried out her graduate studies at Yale University in the laboratory of Fred M. Richards.[2] She also worked at the National Institutes of Health in the lab of Angela Gronenborn and Marius Clore.
Forman-Kay joined the Hospital for Sick Children in 1992, where she is currently a Program Head and Senior Scientist and Senior Scientist in the Molecular Medicine program. Furthermore she is also the Co-Director of the Structural & Biophysical Core Facility.[3] Forman-Kay is also currently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, at University of Toronto.[4]
Forman-Kay's research focuses on structural, functional, and bioinformatic studies of intrinsically disordered proteins using a combination of computational and experimental approaches.[5] Her research has characterised the dynamic complexes of many disordered proteins and their ability to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation. Forman-Kay has developed a software tool called ENSEMBLE which uses experimental data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and Small-angle X-ray scattering to predict the conformations that represent the structural ensembles of disordered proteins.
In 2016, Forman-Kay was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016.[6] [7]
In 2021, Forman-Kay was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.[8]
Forman-Kay is married to biochemist Lewis Kay and has two children. Forman-Kay is also a violinist and plays classical chamber music.