Marc Kirschner#
| Membership Number: | 1980 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://sysbio.med.harvard.edu/facultys/marc-w-kirschner-phd http://kirschner.med.harvard.edu/files/html/people/marc.shtml |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 John Franklin Enders University Professor
- 2003 Founding chair of the HMS Department of Systems Biology
- 1993-2003 Chair of the new Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
- 1978-1993 Professor, University of California, San Francisco
- 1972 Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology
- Systems biology
- Cell cycle
- Embryonic development
- Facilitated evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2004 Dickson Prize for Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2003 E.B. Wilson Medal, American Society for Cell Biology (the ASCB's highest honor)
- 2003 Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
- 2001 Gairdner Foundation International Award (Canada)
- 2001 William C. Rose Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 1999 Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
- 1999 Foreign Member of Royal Society of London
- 1996 Public Service Award in American Society for Cell Biology
- 1991 Richard Lounsbery Award
- 1990-1991 President of American Society for Cell Biology
- 1989 Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1989 Member of National Academy of Sciences
