Pranam D. Chatterjee

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • Assistant Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  • Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 101 Science Drive, CIEMAS 2353A, Durham, NC 27705
  • Email Address: pranam.chatterjee@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020

Research Interests

Integration of computational and experimental methodologies to design novel proteins for applications in genome editing, targeted protein modulation, and reproductive bioengineering

Courses Taught

  • EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
  • COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
  • COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
  • COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
  • BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
  • BME 789: Internship in Biomedical Engineering
  • BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
  • BME 494: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
  • BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
  • BME 390L: Special Topics with a Lab

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Chen, Tong, and Pranam Chatterjee. “Synergizing sequence and structure representations to predict protein variants.” Cell Research 34, no. 9 (September 2024): 597–98. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01010-6.
  • Hong, Lauren, Tianzheng Ye, Tian Wang, Divya Sri, Lin Zhao, Rio Watson, Sophia Vincoff, et al. “Programmable Protein Stabilization with Language Model-Derived Peptide Guides.” Springer Science and Business Media LLC, July 26, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4670386/v1.
  • Hong, Lauren, Tianzheng Ye, Tian Zi Wang, Divya Srijay, Lin Zhao, Rio Watson, Sophia Vincoff, et al. “Programmable Protein Stabilization with Language Model-Derived Peptide Guides.” In Res Sq, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4670386/v1.
  • Vincoff, Sophia, Shrey Goel, Kseniia Kholina, Rishab Pulugurta, Pranay Vure, and Pranam Chatterjee. “FusOn-pLM: A Fusion Oncoprotein-Specific Language Model via Focused Probabilistic Masking.,” June 4, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.03.597245.
  • Zhang, Yinuo, Phil He, Ashley Hsu, and Pranam Chatterjee. “MetaLATTE: Metal Binding Prediction via Multi-Task Learning on Protein Language Model Latents.” BioRxiv, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.26.600843.