Jay T. Groves

Who is Jay T. Groves?

Jay T. Groves, a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, has a long-standing interest in the physical and biological aspects of cell membranes, and he has devoted his career to bridging the divide between physical and biological sciences. His lab focuses on how spatial organization influences signal transduction processes at the cell membrane. He holds his Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford University. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and is the recipient of many other honors, including the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, the Searle Scholars Award, the MIT Technology Review 100, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He has been an associate editor of Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry since 2006.