Gary Felsenfeld

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Gary Felsenfeld is a noted investigator in fields ranging from physical chemistry to genetics, and has served as Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health. He also served as chief of NIH’s section on physical chemistry and as a scientist with the U.S. Public Health Service, Laboratory of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health, and then on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. He has also served as a visiting professor of chemistry at Harvard and Cornell Universities. Felsenfeld is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and has published some 200 papers and patented a DNA sequence. His many awards include the Merck Award of the American Society of Biological Chemists, the Meritorious and the Distinguished Presidential Rank Awards, and numerous lectureships and visiting professorships. He received his AB from Harvard summa cum laude.