Seth Darst

Chemical engineer Seth Darst (ChemEng’82) investigates the structure, function and regulation of RNA synthesis in bacteria and SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent for COVID-19. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2008, is a professor of molecular biophysics at Rockefeller University and won the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 2022. The annual prize is awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and recognizes individual contributions to the field of crystallography, the study of atomic structures in solid materials. The King of Sweden presented Seth with the award.