Robert G. Roeder

Robert Gayle Roeder (born June 3, 1942 in Booneville , Indiana ) is an American biochemist and professor at Rockefeller University , New York City .

Life

Roeder earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Wabash College in Crawfordsville , Indiana in 1964 and a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Illinois in 1965 . In 1965 he received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle , Washington . As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked at the Carnegie Institution for Science , Department of Embryology in Baltimore , Maryland , before becoming an assistant professor (1971 Assistant Professor, 1975 Associate Professor) at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri . In 1979 he became a full professor there and in 1982 was offered a professorship at Rockefeller University , New York City .

Act

Roeder's research area is the mechanisms and regulation of gene expression during cell growth , cell differentiation and virus infection in eukaryotic cells . Roeder was able to make fundamental contributions to research into the biochemistry of transcription . He and his group discovered RNA polymerases in 1969 , transcription initiation factors and a first gene-specific transcription activator in 1980, and the associated gene in 1984.

Since 2014 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

Awards (selection)

• 1977 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
• 1986 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology
• 1988 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
• 1992 membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 1995 Passano Award
• 1995 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1994 Rosenstiel Award
• 1999 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
• 1999 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
• 2000 Gairdner Foundation International Award
• 2001 Dickson Prize in Medicine
• 2003 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• 2012 Albany Medical Center Prize
• 2018 Howard Taylor Ricketts Award

Web links

• Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D. at rockefeller.edu; Retrieved November 19, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chambon, Roeder and Tjian Receive Horwitz Prize at columbia.edu; Retrieved November 16, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Passano Awards 1945–2009 at passanofoundation.org; Retrieved November 16, 2010
3. ↑ 2014 Predictions at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved September 25, 2014
4. ↑ Prize winners 1935 to 2011 (PDF; 46 kB); Retrieved November 16, 2010
5. ^ Robert G. Roeder BA, MS, PhD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved December 15, 2012
6. ↑ Dickson Prize Winner at dicksonprize.pitt.edu; Retrieved November 16, 2010
7. ^ 2003 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award at laskerfoundation.org; accessed on May 10, 2019.
8. ^ Leaders in Molecular Biology Honored with Albany Medical Center Prize. In: amc.edu. May 15, 2012, accessed December 11, 2017 .