{{short description|American chemist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Stephen Samuel Hecht | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Chemistry, pathology, toxicology | workplaces = University of Minnesota | patrons = | education = Duke University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Part I: A̲protic decomposition of 2-phenyl-cyclooctanone p̲-toluene-sulfonylhydrazone; and 3-phenylycyclooctanone p̲-toluenesulfonylhy-drazone; part II: Oxadiaziridines: synthesis and reactivity. | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 1968 | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2014, American Society of Preventive Oncology's Joseph Cullen Award (2012), American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Toxicology Founders' Award (2009), National Cancer Institute Merit Award (2004) | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = Sharon E. Murphy<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.acschemtox.org/newsletter/steve-hecht-wins-2009-founders-award/ | title=Stephen Hecht Wins 2009 Founders Award | publisher=American Chemical Society | work=Division of Chemical Toxicology | accessdate=7 June 2017}}{{dead link|date=December 2021}}</ref> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Stephen S. Hecht''' is an American chemist and cancer researcher. He is the Wallin Land Grant Professor of Cancer Prevention in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the University of Minnesota's Medicinal Chemistry graduate program, as well as the Program Leader of the Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program of the Masonic Cancer Center.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/experts/stephen-hecht.html |title=Stephen S. Hecht |website=Experts |publisher=American Chemical Society |access-date=2017-03-21 |archive-date=2017-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321170425/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/experts/stephen-hecht.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Since January 2013, he has also been the editor-in-chief of ''Chemical Research in Toxicology''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2012/july/stephen-s-hecht-phd-named-new-editor-in-chief-of-chemical-research-in-toxicology.html |title=Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., named new Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Research in Toxicology |website=American Cancer Society |date=18 July 2012}}</ref>
==Research== Hecht's research focuses on the mechanisms whereby carcinogens in tobacco and the environment cause cancer.<ref name=umn>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pathology.umn.edu/bio/lab-med-and-pathology-faculty/stephen-hecht |title=Stephen Hecht |website=University of Minnesota}}</ref> He has been studying the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer for over four decades.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/sports/hockey/nhl-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy-cte-juliet-macur.html?_r=0 |title=The N.H.L.'s Problem With Science |last=Macur |first=Juliet |website=New York Times |date=8 February 2017}}</ref> For example, he has studied the ways in which certain people, such as babies whose mothers smoke during pregnancy, are exposed to carcinogens in tobacco.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-24-he-16007-story.html |title=Newborns Smoke Carcinogen |last=Maugh |first=Thomas |website=Los Angeles Times |date=24 August 1998 |access-date=21 March 2017 |archive-date=22 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322112623/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/24/health/he-16007 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-08-me-35074-story.html |title=New Study Supports Theory of Secondhand Smoke's Effects |last=Maugh |first=Thomas |website=Los Angeles Times |date=8 March 2001 |access-date=21 March 2017 |archive-date=22 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322112549/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/08/local/me-35074 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Honors and awards== In 2004, Hecht received a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Merit Award, and from 1987 to 2001, he received an Outstanding Investigator Grant from the NCI. In 2006, he received the American Association for Cancer Research's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Prevention Research.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aacr.org/Research/Awards/PAGES/PREVENT-CANCER-FOUNDATION-AWARD___8470D6.ASPX#.WOFjPogrLb0 |title=AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Prevention Research Recipients |website=AACR.org |access-date=2017-04-02 |archive-date=2014-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202072312/http://www.aacr.org/RESEARCH/AWARDS/PAGES/PREVENT-CANCER-FOUNDATION-AWARD___8470D6.ASPX#.WOFjPogrLb0 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has been a fellow of the American Chemical Society since 2009 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2014. In 2012, he received the American Society of Preventive Oncology's Joseph W. Cullen Award.<ref name=umn/>
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==External links== *[https://www.pathology.umn.edu/bio/lab-med-and-pathology-faculty/stephen-hecht Faculty page] {{Authority control}}
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