Michael F. Summers

Michael F. Summers
Alma materSt. Petersburg Junior College
University of West Florida
Emory University
Known forNMR, Role of the Gag protein in RNA recognition, Mentoring Underrepresented Students
AwardsHoward Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Member of National Academy of Sciences
Ruth Kirstein Award
Carl Branden award
Emily M. Gray Award
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education
Mentor Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Microbiology Hinton Award for Mentoring

Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
Biochemistry
InstitutionsHoward Hughes Medical Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
ThesisStudies of B12 Analogs and Models Containing Bis (dimethylglyoximato) and Bis (salicylidine)-o-phenylenediamine as Equatorial Ligands (1984)
Doctoral advisorLuigi Marzilli
Other academic advisorsAd Bax
Doctoral studentsVictoria D'Souza

Michael F. Summers is the Robert E. Meyerhoff Chair for Excellence in Research and Mentoring and a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology. Since 1994, he has been a HHMI Investigator as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2016.

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