Tom W. Muir

Muir is a chemical biologist known for his contributions to the fields of peptide and protein chemistry. Chemistry-driven technologies developed in his group open up the world of proteins to the tools of organic chemistry by allowing the incorporation of non-coded elements including unnatural amino acids, posttranslational modifications and isotopic probes site-specifically into proteins. These approaches are now widely employed in academia and industry. His current research interests lie principally in the area of epigenetics, where he uses chemical biology approaches to illuminate how chemical changes to chromatin are linked to different cellular phenotypes.