Position:
President and Scientific Director at New York Genome Center, Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor and Investigator, HHMI at Rockefeller University, Attending Neurologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Work:
New York Genome Center
- New York, NY since Nov 2012
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President and Scientific Director
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
since 2002
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Investigator
Rockefeller University
since Nov 1992
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Professor and Investigator, HHMI
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
since 1990
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Attending Neurologist
Weill Cornell Medical College
1989 - 1990
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Chief Resident, Neurology
Education:
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 1979 - 1985
MD, PhD, Molecular Biology
Columbia University in the City of New York 1975 - 1979
BA, Biology, Chemistry
Interests:
biotechnology; RNA maps; tumor immunity; paraneoplastic neurologic disorders; high throughput RNA profiling, triathlons
Honor & Awards:
NIH Directors Transformative Research Award, 2012
Cotzias Lecture, American Academy of Neurology, 2012
Elected Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2010
Elected Fellow (Neuroscience), American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
Neuron Innovator Award, GeneExpression Systems, 2010
Elected Member, Association of American Physicians, 2010
Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, 2007
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2002
Elected Member, Kunkel Society, 2001
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research, 2000
Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award, 1998
Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award, 1996