B. Montgomery Pettitt

B. Montgomery Pettitt

B. Montgomery "Monte" Pettitt is the Director of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, TX, holder of the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, and tenured Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as well as the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at UTMB. He is also affiliated with and former director of the The W.M. Keck Center, and a faculty member of the Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) program at Baylor College of Medicine. Formerly, he was the Hugh Roy and Lille Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at the University of Houston, as well as the director of Houston's Institute for Molecular Design.