David Minh is the Associate Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation (CISC) and an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. His research focuses on developing and applying computational methods for studying noncovalent interactions between proteins and small organic molecules. These types of interactions are essential for biological functions such as signal transduction and to the mechanism of most pharmaceuticals. His group is developing new algorithms to predict the strength of these interactions based on implicit ligand theory, a new theoretical framework for making these predictions that he published in 2012.
Minh’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health. His group actively collaborates with several groups at IIT and at other U.S. institutions. Minh received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of California, San Diego, and his B.A. in chemistry from University of California, Berkeley.