Garegin Papoian, Ph.D.

Dr. Garegin Papoian is the Chief Scientific Officer of Deep Origin, with expertise spanning quantum chemistry, protein folding and dynamics, chromatin biophysics, cytoskeletal modeling, and whole-cell simulations. A former Monroe Martin Professor at the University of Maryland and Founder of Biosim (merged with Deep Origin), he earned his PhD at Cornell University under Nobel Laureate Dr. Roald Hoffmann. Dr. Papoian is widely recognized for his pioneering work in computational chemistry and biophysics, with more than one hundred publications in leading international journals and national honors including the Beckman Young Investigator Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and NSF CAREER Award.