Stephen P. Bell is an American biochemist.
Bell earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specializes in researching DNA replication and replisomes.[1] [2] He was named a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000.[3] In 2009, Bell received the NAS Award in Molecular Biology and was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences itself in 2017.[4] MIT appointed Bell the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor of Biology in 2018.[5] He is a member of the Editorial Board for Genes & Development.[6]