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Thomas A. Steitz is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale University. During the past three decades, Dr. Steitz has used x_ray crystallography to determine the structures of proteins and nucleic acids, with a consistent focus on their biological function. He has recently obtained data on the 50S subunit of the ribosome. Virtually all aspects of nucleic acid metabolism have come under his scrutiny-replication, transcription, recombination, and protein synthesis. Dr. Steitz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the recipient of the 1980 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. |
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