| Valerie D. Daggett | |
| Education: | University of California, San Francisco |
| Thesis Title: | Molecular modelling of peptides and proteins |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ |
| Thesis Year: | 1990 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Irwin Kuntz, Peter Kollman |
| Academic Advisors: | Michael Levitt |
| Known For: | Large-scale simulations of protein folding |
Valerie Daggett is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Daggett has a B.S. from Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, advised by Irwin Kuntz and Peter Kollman, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University with Michael Levitt, a co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[1]
As of 2021, she is also the chief executive officer of AltPep, a biomedical startup that was a spinoff from her research at the University of Washington.[2]
Her laboratory focuses on work in molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and other biomolecules. Daggett is well known for large-scale simulations of protein folding, especially unfolding, and native state dynamics through her "dynameomics" project.[3] [4] In 2005, the Daggett laboratory was awarded a supercomputing grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, which was renewed for almost two million processor-hours in 2006;[5] the group has also participated in Microsoft Research high-performance computing projects.[6]
In 2011, Daggett was named a fellow of the Biophysical Society.[7] Daggett was one of two University of Washington scientists named 2015 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows.[8]