Gregg Fields, Ph.D., chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry and director of the Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).Fields is a renowned researcher who holds seven U.S. patents and has authored more than 250 scientific publications. His research focuses on the use of chemical approaches to better understand how protein three-dimensional structures influence cellular and enzymatic behaviors. He has participated in 13 National Institutes of Health R01 grants, either as principal investigator or co-principal investigator, and has presented nearly 200 invited lectures.
Fields previously served as the chemistry and biochemistry department’s chair at FAU from 2000-08 and has since worked with several top organizations in his field, including Scripps Florida, the H. Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center & Research Institute, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Most recently he was vice president for scientific affairs at the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies in Port St. Lucie.
