Prof. Sabeeha Merchant

Professor Sabeeha Merchant is a Professor of Biochemistry and a member of the Molecular Biology Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.

ProfShe completed BS and PhD degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Post-doctoral Scholar at Harvard University. She has conducted seminal research on the role of metals in regulating the biosynthesis and assembly of metalloproteins in photosynthetic eukaryotes, and pioneered discoveries in the assembly of metalloenzymes and the regulated biogenesis of major complexes of the photosynthetic apparatus in green algae.

Prof. Merchant’s honors include the National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award; UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards; ASPB Charles F. Kettering Award, Humboldt Forschungspreis (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Darbaker Prize from the Botanical Society of America. She is also the elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.