2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
482 Li Ka Shing Center
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
EDUCATION:
1966-70 University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. in Molecular Biology, Cum Laude
1970-74 Stanford University School of Medicine, PhD
Biochemistry, 1975 (PhD advisor: Dr. A. Kornberg)
1974-76 Biology Dept., University of California, San Diego
(Post-doctoral advisor: S.J. Singer)
POSITIONS:
1976-89 Assistant, Associate and Professor of Biochemistry
1989- Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
1990-94 Head, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1997-2000 Co-chairman, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
1991- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2002-2012 Chair, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Biology, UCB
2005 Founding Director, UC Berkeley Stem Cell Center
2006-2010 Program Director, CIRM Training Grant
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Member, American Society for Microbiology
Member, American Academy for Microbiology
Member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Member, American Society for Cell Biology
Member, Pew Scholars Program Advisory Committee, 1996-2002
Member, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Scientific Advisory Board 1993-2012
Natl. Inst. of Health Cell Biology Study Section, 1983-1988
Gairdner Foundation, Medical Advisory Board, 2015-2020
Shaw Prize in Life Science/Medicine Selection Committee, 2010-2015
Editorial Boards: The Journal of Cell Biology, 1985-1992
Biochemistry, 1986-1993
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002-05
The Journal of Membrane Biology, 1986-2000
Cell, 2001-2012
Chair, National Academy of Sciences Biochemistry Section, 2002-2005
Chair, National Academy of Sciences Biology Class, 2005-2008
Council, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2009-2012
Editor in Chief, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 1999-2017
Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006-2011
Scientific Director, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, 2002-2012
Editor-in-Chief, eLife, 2011- 2019
Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2014 – 2017
Chair, Shaw Prize in Life Science/Medicine Selection Committee, 2017-2021
Chair of Advisory Council, Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s 2017-
