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Daniel Diaz

Daniel Diaz

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leads Deep Proteins Group

Turbocharging Protein Engineering with AI

Three people stand silhouetted  in front of a wall-sized video display that shows several large colorful illustrations of molecules

09/26/2024 - Biotech advances from UT’s new Deep Proteins group are changing the game with help from artificial intelligence.Working as a chemist in Houston, Danny Diaz spent a lot of time plodding his way through crosstown traffic, pondering how to speed up his research.“I realized that my impact in the short term would be limited to the amount of chemistry experiments I could do with my hands,” he recalled.