Steven G. Clarke, (born November 19, 1949) an American biochemist, is a director of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute,[1] a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA biochemistry department.
Clarke heads a laboratory at UCLA's department of chemistry and biochemistry.
He was born in Los Angeles and attended public schools in Altadena and Pasadena, California.
He did his undergraduate work at Pomona College, a private institution, in Claremont, majoring in Chemistry and Zoology and graduating in 1970.
He obtained a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University working as an NSF Fellow with Professor Guido Guidotti on membrane protein-detergent interactions and the identification of the major rat liver mitochondrial polypeptides as enzymes of the urea cycle.