Squire Booker

Squire Booker
BornSeptember 9, 1965
Beaumont, Texas
Alma materB.A. in Chemistry at Austin College (1987)

Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994)
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (1994-1995)

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin (1996-1999)
Known forBiochemistry research with iron-sulfur clusters enzymes
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2004)

American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2011)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2015)

Associate Editor for the American Chemical Society Biochemistry Journal (2019)
Scientific career
InstitutionsPenn State University (1999-Present)

Squire Booker is an American biochemist at The Pennsylvania State University. Booker directs an interdisciplinary chemistry research program related to fields of biochemistry, enzymology, protein chemistry, natural product biosynthesis, and mechanisms of radical dependent enzymes. He is an associate editor for the American Chemical Society Biochemistry Journal, is a Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and an Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science at Penn State University.