Summary
Professor John A. Gerlt attended Michigan State University where he received his B.S. in Biochemistry in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University in 1974. After postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health in 1974-75, he held faculty positions at both Yale University and the University of Maryland before joining the Illinois faculty in 1994. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Repligen Corporation Award in Chemistry for Biological Processes from the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society His research interests are in mechanistic enzymology.