Background
Herschlag, Daniel was born on October 16, 1958 in White Plains, New York, United States.
biochemist professor of biochemistry
Herschlag, Daniel was born on October 16, 1958 in White Plains, New York, United States.
Herschlag received a Bachelor of Surgery in Biochemistry from State University of New York-Binghamton in 1982. He began his graduate studies at University of Minnesota then moved on to complete his Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry at Brandeis University under West.P. Jencks in 1988.
His research uses an interdisciplinary approach to advance our understanding of the fundamental behavior of Ribonucleic acid and proteins. He is well known for his application of rigorous kinetic and mechanistic approaches to Ribonucleic acid and protein systems Herschlag was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1989 to 1992.
He conducted post-doctoral research on the mechanism of the newly discovered Ribonucleic acid self-splicing reaction in the lab of Tom Cech.
In 1992, Herschlag joined the faculty of the Biochemistry department in the Stanford University School of Medicine, earning tenure in 1997. He was promoted to full professor in 2002.
In 2011, he was appointed the Senior Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs for the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society (Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2000), American Society Biochemistry and Molecualr Biology, Ribonucleic acid Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married; 2 children.