Marc Kirschner
Marc Wallace Kirschner (born February 28, 1945) is an American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is known for major discoveries in cell and developmental biology related to the dynamics and function of the cytoskeleton, the regulation of the cell cycle, and the process of signaling in embryos, as well as the evolution of the vertebrate body plan. He is a leader in applying mathematical approaches to biology. He is the John Franklin Enders University Professor at Harvard University. In 2021 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Marc Kirschner | |
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| Born | Marc Wallace Kirschner February 28, 1945 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Northwestern University (BA) |
| Known for | cell cycle, embryonic development, facilitated evolution |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Systems biology |
| Institutions | Harvard Medical School University of California, San Francisco Princeton University |
| Thesis | Conformational changes in aspartate transcarbamylase (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Howard Schachman |
| Other academic advisors | John Gerhart John Gurdon |
| Doctoral students | Tim Stearns Tim Mitchison |
| Website | kirschner |
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