Ronald Mark Evans is an American professor and biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in Louisiana Jolla, California and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
Education
He received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from University of California, Los Angeles, followed by a postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University with James East. Darnell He became a faculty member at the Salk Institute in 1978 and Adjunct Professor in Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience at University of California, San Diego (1985, 1989, 1995).
Career
His research focuses on the function of nuclear hormone signaling and metabolism. He was named March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology at the Salk Institute in 1998.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
He has an h-index in the top ten of living biologists and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1989).