Background
Botstein, David was born on September 8, 1942 in Zurich, Switzerland. Naturalized, 1954.
biologist geneticist university professor
Botstein, David was born on September 8, 1942 in Zurich, Switzerland. Naturalized, 1954.
Botstein graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1959, and Harvard University in 1963. He started his Doctor of Philosophy work under Maurice Sanford Fox at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then moved and received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1967 for work on P22 phage.
He served as the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003–2013, where he remains an Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics. Botstein taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became a Professor of Genetics. Botstein joined Genentech, Incorporated. in 1987 as Vice President-Science.
In 1990, he became Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University.
Doctor Botstein was elected to the United States. National Academy of Sciences in 1981 and to the Institute of Medicine in 1993. Botstein is the director of the Integrated Science Program at Princeton University.
Many Integrated Science students have gone on to be successful in the field of molecular biology. Variations of this method were used in the mapping efforts that predated and enabled the sequencing phase of the Human Genome Project.
He has subsequently worked on the creation of the influential Gene Ontology with Michael Ashburner and Suzanna Lewis.
He is one of the founding editors of the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell, along with Erkki Ruoslahti and Keith Yamamoto. In 2013, Botstein was named Chief Scientific Officer of Google"s anti-aging health startup Calico. Botstein is an alumnus of Camp Rising Sun.
He is the brother of the conductor Leon Botstein.
Both of Botstein"s parents were physicians.
Member National Academy of Sciences, Genetics Society of America (board directors 1984), Institute Medicine.