Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Steve Briggs earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and spent the first half of his career in industry as Director at Pioneer/DuPont; President of Torrey Mesa Research Institute; and Senior Vice President for Corporate Research at Diversa. He served as Senior Staff Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Briggs joined the faculty at UCSD as Professor where he served as Chair of the Section of Cell & Developmental Biology, Associate Dean of the Division of Biology, and Interim Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.