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V. Roig-Zamboni is a structural biologist whose work has been instrumental in advancing high-throughput protein crystallography and uncovering the functions of uncharacterized bacterial proteins. Their key research areas include structural genomics, protein crystallization methodology, and the functional annotation of hypothetical proteins through X-ray crystallography. Roig-Zamboni’s most significant contribution is the development of a medium-throughput crystallization approach, detailed in their highly cited 2002 paper (80 citations), which demonstrated the power of combining robotic screening with manual or automated optimization—a strategy that has become a cornerstone of modern structural genomics pipelines. This work showed that systematic, semi-automated methods could dramatically accelerate the determination of protein structures. In a complementary 2004 study (7 citations), they solved the crystal structure of the *E. coli* yddE protein, revealing a striking homology to diaminopimelate epimerase. This finding provided critical functional insights into a previously unknown protein, highlighting the value of structural genomics in assigning biological roles to hypothetical gene products. Through these contributions, Roig-Zamboni has helped bridge the gap between high-throughput structural determination and meaningful biological discovery.