Michael Hecht is a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton and holds affiliated appointments in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Institute for Integrative Genomics. His research is at the interface of chemistry and biology. Specifically, his lab works in protein design and synthetic biology, as well as on the molecular underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Hecht is the Master of Forbes College, one of the six undergraduate colleges at Princeton University.
Michael Hecht
Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
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