Laura Kiessling is an institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a member of Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, and the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at MIT. Prior to MIT, she was the Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry and the Hilldale Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, where she also directed the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1998) and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2008). In 2018, Kiessling was the first woman to receive the Tetrahedron Award. Kiessling is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), a Member of the American Academy of Microbiology (2007), the American Philosophical Society (2017), the National Academy of Sciences (2007) and the National Academy of Medicine (2022).