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Michael Sheetz

American biochemist · Academics · Died 2025

Michael Patrick Sheetz was a cell biologist, a pioneer of mechanobiology and biomechanics, and a key contributor to the discovery of kinesin.

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2025Died30 January 20252014Keith R. Porter LectureAward2013Massry PrizeAward2012Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward2004Van Deenen MedalAward2000Born

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Awards

Keith R. Porter Lecture2014
Massry Prize2013
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research2012
Van Deenen Medal2004

About this person

He served as the Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, the department of biochemistry and molecular biology. He was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology at Columbia University, former distinguished professor and the founding director of the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore, and former professor at Washington University in St. Louis and chairman at Duke University.

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Died 2025