Education
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Biology from Stanford University in 1977, under the research direction of Robert Schimke, followed by postdoctoral work in David Baltimore"s laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
geneticist university professor
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Biology from Stanford University in 1977, under the research direction of Robert Schimke, followed by postdoctoral work in David Baltimore"s laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is the Director of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Boston Children"s Hospital. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1987. From 1982-1991 he was on the faculty at Columbia University and then moved to Harvard Medical School.
His research interest is in maintenance of genome stability in cells of the mammalian immunological system, particularly antigen receptor variable region gene assembly in developing B and T lymphocytes, immunoglobulin heavy chain class switch recombination (CSR), and somatic hypermutation in activated mature B lymphocytes.
The Cancer Research Institute of New York gives an annual prize in his honor, the.
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He is a member of the Immunology section of the National Academy of Sciences and a Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Alternate is a member of:.