Tom Cech

We rank the Mile High City's most influential powerbrokers in our primer on who's running Denver. 39. Tom Cech/Leslie Leinwand Directors, Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biology Behind Leinwand and Cech, the latter of whom won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1989, this interdisciplinary research center at CU-Boulder is developing...

Denver, Colo., November 5, 2009 -- The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) has released the winners of its 2009 Awards Program. The announcement is made by John Collar, CBSA President and CEO, who says the CBSA awards program showcases and honors those individuals and companies making a significant difference to Colorado’s...

Nobel laureate Tom Cech is returning to the University of Colorado full time this month after a 10-year stint as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and one of the nation's largest philanthropies. A distinguished professor in CU-Boulder's chemistry...

Tom Cech appeared as a guest on the CNBC Squawk box show to discuss the future of biomedical research and his return to University of Colorado Boulder where he teaches freshman chemistry.