Sidney Hecht
Director,ASU’s Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
USA
Biography
Sidney Hecht obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Illinois. He was an MIT Chemistry faculty member (1971-79) and was John Mallet Professor of Chemistry at UVa (1978-2008). He is Director of the Center for BioEnergetics in ASU’s Biodesign Institute. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and an ACS Cope Scholar Awardee. Hecht was selected as Virginia’s Outstanding Scientist for 1996. He received the 2011 ASU Faculty Achievement Award in Defining Edge Research: Innovation. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and has published 440 research papers.
Research Interest
Organic, biochemistry