Harvey Lodish
Harvey Franklin Lodish (born November 16, 1941 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American molecular and cell biologist. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research .
Lodish graduated from Kenyon College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry in 1962 (summa cum laude) and received his PhD in genetics under Norton Zinder at Rockefeller University in 1966 . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge with Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick until 1968 . In 1968 he became an assistant professor and in 1976 professor of biology at MIT, where he became a founding member of the Whitehead Institute in 1983 (under its director David Baltimore ). In 1999 he became Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT (the department was newly established at that time).
He is with Baltimore author of a popular textbook on molecular and cell biology. He was involved in founding several startups in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Two later Nobel Prize winners ( Aaron Ciechanover , James Rothman ) carried out research in his laboratory .
Initially, he dealt with the genetic control of protein synthesis in cells and with the development of the slime mold Dictyostelium . From 1973 he dealt with the function of some important glycoproteins in cell membranes (for example the endoplasmic reticulum ). He researched the function and structure of receptors and transport proteins.
His laboratory is currently (2016) researching the development of red blood cells and red blood cells as tools and access for diagnosis, new drugs and substances that modulate the immune system, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and the development of insulin resistance and stress responses in adipocytes .
In 2004 he was President of the American Society for Cell Biology . Lodish is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an external member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He was a Guggenheim Fellow .
He is an honorary doctorate and trustee of Kenyon College.
Fonts
- with James Darnell , David Baltimore : Molecular Cell Biology. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1993
- with Arnold Berk, Chris A. Kaiser, Monty Krieger, Anthony Bretscher, Hidde Ploegh , Angelika Amon , Kelsey C. Martin: Molecular Cell Biology, 8th edition, Freeman 2016, ISBN 978-1-4641-8339-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lodish, Harvey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lodish, Harvey Franklin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American molecular and cell biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |