Lucy R. Forrest

Lucy Rachel Forrest is a researcher at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. She is known for her work on membrane proteins. She was granted the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the Biophysical Society in 2012 for her work in biophysics.

Education and career Forrest studied chemistry at the University of Surrey, UK, with a minor in computing and received her Bachelor of Science degree. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 2000. From 2000 to 2001 Forrest was a grantee for the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program. Forrest participated in Eli Lilly’s research site in Windlesham, Surrey, performed postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and did a second postdoctoral research period at the Medical Research Council's Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, UK. In 2007, Forrest was designated the Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt, Germany.

Research Forrest's early research centered on simulating and modeling membrane proteins in lipid bilayers. She also examines secondary transport mechanisms, and has developed a database that allows for comparison of structural differences in membrane proteins.

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Honors and awards In 2012, she was a recipient of the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her research on “conformational changes of membrane proteins related to their function, and her impact on the field of computational structural biology”.