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David A. Tirrell

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David A. Tirrell

ICB-Caltech Coordinator, McCollum-Corcoran Professor and Chair,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
(Caltech)

CONTACT
M/C 164-30
225 Spalding
Pasadena, CA 91125

Tel.: 626-395-3140
Email: tirrell@caltech.edu
Web site: http://chemistry.caltech.edu/faculty/tirrell/research.html

EDUCATION
Ph.D.: 1978, University of Massachusetts
B.S.: 1974, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Combination of organic, biological, and materials chemistry to make new polymeric systems of controlled molecular and supramolecular architectures. Investigation of artificial proteins made by expression of artificial genes in microbial cells, artificial amino acids to engineer proteins with useful properties, and novel methods of biological imaging and proteome-wide investigation of cellular processes.

CURRENT TEAMS

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