Dr. Linda Hsieh-Wilson is the Milton and Rosalind Chang Professor of Chemistry and a Merkin Institute Professor at the California Institute of Technology. She received her B.S., magna cum laude, in chemistry from Yale University in 1990. In 1996, she completed her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Peter Schultz. In 1996, she moved to Rockefeller University to study neurobiology with Nobel laureate Paul Greengard as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Hsieh-Wilson joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology in 2000, where she became an associate professor of chemistry in 2006 and full professor in 2010. She also served as an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2005–2014. In 2015, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2022, to the National Academy of Sciences. Her honors include a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the Gill Young Investigator Award in Neuroscience, and the Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry. Dr. Hsieh-Wilson's research integrates chemistry and neurobiology to decipher the roles of glycans in the nervous system and to develop innovative chemical tools and technologies with applications in basic research, diagnostics, and therapeutic discovery.
