Stephen P. Bell

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Stephen P. Bell is an American biochemist.

Bell earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specializes in researching DNA replication and replisomes. [1] [2] He was named a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000. [3] In 2009, Bell received the NAS Award in Molecular Biology and was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences itself in 2017. [4] MIT appointed Bell the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor of Biology in 2018. [5] He is a member of the Editorial Board for Genes & Development . [6]

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