Dr. Sidney Altman

1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recipient

Dr. Altman is presenting the keynote lecture as part of the MAPS meeting. The annual chapter meeting runs from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is a cost associated with attending this event. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.aspet.org/public/chapters/maps/maps2007_meeting.htm.

Sidney Altman, PhD, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and professor of chemistry at Yale University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 along with Dr. Thomas Cech for their role in "the discovery of catalytic properties of RNA." Dr. Altman's career has primarily been concerned with nucleic acid biochemistry and with the genetics of tRNA expression. Born in Montreal in 1939. Dr. Altman obtained a BSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1960 and his PhD from the University of Colorado in 1967. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University from 1967-1969 and a visiting research fellow at the MRC Laboratory in Cambridge, England from 1969-1971. He joined Yale University in 1971 where he continues as a Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology.