Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
HHMI Investigator
Bonnie Bassler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Squibb Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Bassler has received numerous awards for her research, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2002), the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Science (2009), the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine (2015), the Gruber Prize in Genetics (2020), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Princess of Asturias Award, and the National Medal of Science (2025), the country’s highest scientific honor. She is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Bassler is a passionate advocate for diversity in the sciences and is actively committed to communicating science to the public.
