Errol Clive Friedberg is a biologist

Biologist

A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

 and historian of science in the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...

. He studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa

South Africa

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, and subsequently received postdoctoral training in biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

 and pathology

Pathology

Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....

 at Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...

 before joining the faculty at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. Friedberg's research contributions center around understanding how cells repair and/or tolerate unrepaired damage to DNA and defining the biological consequences of unrepaired DNA damage. He has edited and written several editions of DNA Repair and Mutagenesis

DNA Repair and Mutagenesis (textbook)

DNA Repair and Mutagenesis is a college-level textbook about DNA repair and mutagenesis written by Errol Friedberg, Graham Walker, Wolfram Siede, Richard D. Wood, and Roger Schultz...

, published by ASM Press.

Friedberg has also published several volumes on aspects of the history of molecular biology, including Correcting the Blueprint of Life-An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, The Writing Life of James D. Watson

James D. Watson

James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...

, From Rags to Riches-The Phenomenal Rise of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...

: A Biography.

Friedberg has contributed over 400 papers to the scientific literature, and is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal DNA Repair

DNA Repair (journal)

DNA Repair is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers cellular responses to DNA damage. Published monthly since January 2002 by Elsevier, with Errol Friedberg as editor in chief, the journal publishes original research papers, short reviews, and book reviews concerning DNA repair, cell cycle...

.

Awards

• Rous Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology (2000)
• Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (2002)
• Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of the Witwatersrand (2002)
• Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research (2007)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
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  (2007)

Authored books

• Sydney Brenner: A Biography, pub. CSHL Press, September 2010, ISBN 0879699477.
• Sydney Brenner: My Life in Science, with Lewis Wolpert, edited by Errol C. Friedberg and Eleanor Lawrence, BioMed Central 2001, ISBN 0-9540278-0-9
• The Writing Life of James D. Watson, pub. CSHL Press,2005, ISBN 0879697008
• From Rags to Riches-The Phenomenal Rise of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Carolina Academic Press,2007, ISBN 1594603979
• DNA Repair and Mutagenesis (with G. C. Walker, W. Siede, R. D. Wood, R. A Schultz and T. Ellenberger), pub. ASM Press, 2006, ISBN 1555813194
• Cancer Answers-Encouraging Answers to 25 Questions You Were Afraid to Ask WH Freeman, New York, 1992, ISBN 0-7167-7023-7