Document Actions
Nobel Laureate Tom Cech To Return To CU From Howard Hughes Medical Institute In Spring 2009
Tom Cech (Photo by Paul Fetters for HHMI)
From CU News Center
Howard Hughes Medical Institute President and University of Colorado at Boulder Distinguished Professor Tom Cech announced today that he will step down as the top HHMI administrator and return to CU in spring 2009 to resume his research and teaching.
Cech, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery that RNA in living cells is not only a molecule of heredity but also can function as a catalyst, has been president of HHMI since January 2000 and a faculty member at CU-Boulder since 1978. He will resume his position at CU as an HHMI Investigator, which he began in 1988, after he steps down as HHMI president
