Professor Marc W. Kirschner is an American cell biologist.

Biography

Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 and in 1971 received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He held post-doc positions at Berkeley and at the University of Oxford in England. He became Assistant Professor at Princeton University in 1972. In 1978 he was made professor at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1993, he moved to Harvard Medical School.

In 1999, Kirschner was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2004 he became head of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard.

Bibliography

• with John Gerhart, Cells, Embryos, and Evolution: Toward a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability (Blackwell's, 1997) ISBN 0865425744
• with John Gerhart, The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma (Yale University Press 2005) ISBN 0300108656

External links

• http://sysbio.med.harvard.edu/faculty/kirschner/

American biologists | Jewish-American scientists | Living people | Members and associates of the US National Academy of Sciences