Princeton Professor Named to National Science Board

Bonnie Bassler, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, was nominated by President Obama to serve as a member of the National Science Board. The 24-member board oversees the National Science Foundation, the major source of government research funds.

Professor Bassler has been on the Princeton faculty since 1994. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the 2009 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences.

Dr. Bassler is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University.