Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Chemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 
BIOGRAPHY: Ph.D. Harvard University, 1966; Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, 1967-70; joined Yale Faculty 1970. Macy Fellow, Göttingen, Germany, 1976-77; Fairchild Scholar, Caltech, 1984-85; Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992-93; Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, 1980; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1990; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990; Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research, 2001; AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 2001; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1986-present.