Nobelprisen i kjemi (2009) (sammen med: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ada Yonath)[13][14] Keio-prisen i medisin (2006)[15] Gairdner Foundation International-prisen (2007) (vinner: Harry F. Noller) Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1980) Rosenstiel-prisen (2000)[16] Sir Hans Krebs-medaljen (2000) Sterling Professor Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires Utenlandsk medlem av Royal Society (2011)[17] Newcomb Cleveland Prize Honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (2014)[18]
Steitz offentliggjorde i 1998 den første krystallstruktur innen ribosomenes store underenhet.[22]
Steitz var gift med Joan A. Steitz, en annen ledende biokjemiker og professor ved Yale University.
Publikasjoner i utvalg
Yin, Y.W. og Steitz, T.A. Structural basis for the transition from initiation to elongation transcription in T7 RNA polymerase. Science 298, 1387-1395 (2002)
Schmeing, T.M., Huang, K.S., Strobel, S.A. og Steitz, T.A. An induced-fit mechanism to promote peptide bond formation and exclude hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA. Nature 438, 520-524 (2005)
Tu, D., Blaha, G., Moore, P.B. og Steitz, T.A. Structures of MLSBK antibiotics bound to mutated large ribosomal subunits provide a structural explanation for resistance. Cell 121, 257-270 (2005)
Li, W., Kamtekar, S., Xiong, Y., Sarkis, G.J., Grindley, N.D.F. og Steitz, T.A. Structure of a synaptic γδ resolvase tetramer covalently linked to two cleaved DNAs. Science 309, 1210-1215 (2005)
Bailey, S., Wing, R.A. og Steitz, T.A. The structure of T. aquaticus DNA polymerase III is distinct from eukaryotic replicative DNA polymerases. Cell, (2006)
^N. Ban, B. Freeborn, P. Nissen, P. Penczek, R.A. Grassucci, R. Sweet, J. Frank, P.B. Moore, T.A. Steitz (1998): A 9 Å resolution X-ray crystallographic map of the large ribosomal subunit. I: Cell. 93(7):1105-1115. PMID 9657144