Roger D. Kornberg - Curriculum Vitae#
Winzer Professor in Medicine
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, CA 94305
EDUCATION:
- 1967 B.S. Harvard University, Chemistry
- 1972 Ph.D. Stanford University, Chemistry
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- 1972-1973: Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory, Cambridge, England
- 1973-1974: Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows of Harvard University, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
- 1974-1975: Member of Scientific Staff, Division of Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
- 1976-1977: Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School
- 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
- 2003-present: Winzer Professor of Sruct. Biology, Dept. of Structural Biology, Stanford Univ., School of Med., Stanford, California.
HONORS:
- 1981: Eli Lilly Award
- 1982: Passano Award
- 1990: Ciba-Drew Award
- 1997: Harvey Prize, The Technion, Israel
- 2000: Gairdner International Award, Gairdner Foundation, Canada
- 2001: Hoppe-Seyler Award, Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Germany
- 2001: Honorary degree, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 2001: Welch Award in Chemistry, Welch Foundation
- 2002: Merck Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2002: Le Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, Academie des Sciences, France
- 2003: Pasarow Award in Cancer Research
- 2003: Honorary degree, University of Umea, Sweden
- 2003: Massry Prize (shared with M. Grunstein and D. Allis)
- 2005: General Motors Cancer Research Award (Sloan Prize)
- 2006: Dickson Prize, University of Pittsburgh
- 2006: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
- 2006: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2007: University Professor, Konkuk University, Korea
- 2008: Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Award of the IUPAB
- 2008: Ahmed Zewail Prize, Wayne State University
- 2008: Honorary Professor, Peking University
- 2008: Honorary degree, University of Regensburg, Germany
- 2009: Honorary degree, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- 2010: Pauling Legacy Award
- 2010: Santiago Grisolia Prize, Valencia, Spain
- 2011: Frank Westheimer Prize, Harvard University
MEMBERSHIPS:
- 1993: U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 1995: Japanese Biochemical Society (hon.)
- 1998: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003: Foreign Associate, European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2008: American Philosophical Society
- 2009: Foreign Member, the Royal Society