Roger D. Kornberg#
| Membership Number: | 3448 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://kornberg.stanford.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2003 Winzer Professor of Sructural Biology, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- 1978-2003 Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, School of Medicine
- 1984-1992 Chairman and Professor of Structural Biology, Dept. of Structural Biology, Stanford University, School of Medicine
- 1976-1977 Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, Dept. of Biol. Chemistry, Harvard Med. School, Boston, Massachusetts
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA polymerases
- Chromosomes
- Regulation of gene expression
- Transcription
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Eli Lilly Award
- 1982 Passano Award
- 1990 Ciba-Drew Award
- 1993 Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Honorary Fellow, Biochemical Society of Japan
- 1997 Harvey Prize, Israel
- 1998 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Gairdner International Award*, Canada
- 2001 Hoppe-Seyler Award, Germany
- 2001 Honorary Degree, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 2001 Welch Award in Chemistry*
- 2002 Merck Award
- 2002 Le Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, France
- 2002 Foreign Associate, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2003 Pasarow Award in Cancer Research
- 2003 Honorary Degree, University of Umea, Sweden
- 2005 Sloan Prize in Cancer Research
- 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Sweden
- 2008 Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Award of the IUPAB
- 2008 Ahmed Zewail Prize, Wayne State University
- 2008 American Philosophical Society
- 2009 Foreign Member, the Royal Society
- 2010 Pauling Legacy Award
- 2010 Santiago Grisolia Prize, Valencia, Spain
- 2011 Frank Westheimer Prize, Harvard University
