Dr. Linda Hsieh-Wilson is a Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of
Technology. She was born in New York City and was awarded her B.S. degree magna
cum laude in chemistry from Yale University in 1990. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. in
chemistry from the University of California at 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 Professor and
Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral
fellow. 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.
In 2005, she was appointed an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Professor Hsieh-Wilson has pioneered the application of organic chemistry to
probe the roles of carbohydrates and protein glycosylation in neurobiology and cancer.
Her honors include the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2000), the Research
Corporation Research Innovation Award (2000), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2003),
the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (2006), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
(2008), the Gill Young Investigator Award in Neuroscience (2009), and the Horace S.
Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (2014).