Elizabeth Sattely

I am an Associate Professor and HHMI Investigator in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford and a Stanford ChEM-H Faculty Fellow. I completed my graduate training at Boston College in organic chemistry and my postdoctoral studies in biochemistry at Harvard Medical School where I worked on natural product biosynthesis in bacteria.

I am inspired by human reliance on plants and plant-derived molecules for food and medicine, and the Sattely laboratory is focused on the discovery and engineering of plant metabolic pathways to make molecules that can enhance plant, human, and planetary health. Work in the Sattely lab has been recognized by an NIH New Innovator Award, a DOE Early Career Award, an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar Award, a DARPA Young Investigator Award, and a AAAS Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences.

February 2025