Judith Frydman

Judith Frydman is a biochemist and the Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.

Frydman attended the University of Buenos Aires, earning a PhD in biochemistry.

After graduating, she did a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Ulrich Hartl at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

She is currently the Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.

Her laboratory discovered the molecular chaperone TRiC/CCT and determined its mechanism and function for protein folding.