Professor Marc W. Kirschner is an American

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 cell biologist.

Biography

Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 in 1966 and in 1971 received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He held post-doc positions at Berkeley and at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 in England

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. He became Assistant Professor at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1972. In 1978 he was made professor at the University of California, San Francisco

University of California, San Francisco

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. In 1993, he moved to Harvard Medical School

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.

In 1999, Kirschner was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society

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 and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea

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. He was the 2001 recipient of the William C. Rose Award

William C. Rose Award

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, presented by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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. Later that year, he received the 2001 Gairdner Foundation International Award

Gairdner Foundation International Award

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. In December 2003, Kirschner received the E.B. Wilson Medal, the highest scientific honor from The American Society for Cell Biology

The American Society for Cell Biology

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, in recognition of significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career. In 2004 he became head of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard.

Publications

• with John Gerhart, Cells, Embryos, and Evolution: Toward a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability (Blackwell's
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  , 1997) ISBN 0-86542-574-4
• with John Gerhart, The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma (Yale University Press
  Yale University Press
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  2005) ISBN 0-300-10865-6

External links

• Marc W. Kirschner, Ph.D., Faculty page, Harvard Department of Systems Biology
• Marc Kirschner Author Profile Page on Pubget