Steve Smith

Steve Smith, Ph.D. is a PTC Laboratories Associate Laboratory Director. Dr. Smith has an extensive background in molecular biology and bacterial genetics. He worked for 10 years in a perinatal physiology lab at Washington University School of Medicine using molecular tools to research human placental development and function in normal and pathologic pregnancies.

He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Missouri- Columbia performing research manipulating bacterial genetics to identify and characterize previously unknown metabolic pathways.