Linda Hsieh-Wilson, PhD

Dr. Linda Hsieh-Wilson is the Milton and Rosalind Professor of Chemistry and a Merkin Institute Professor at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her BS in chemistry from Yale University and her PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow. She then conducted postdoctoral research in neurobiology at The Rockefeller University as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell fellow. Dr. Hsieh-Wilson joined the Caltech faculty in 2000, became an associate professor in 2006, and was promoted to full professor in 2010. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her laboratory integrates chemistry and neurobiology to investigate how glycans/carbohydrates and protein glycosylation regulate brain function and contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.