Nationality American Fields Genetics Education Haverford College | Name Douglas Koshland | |
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Institutions University of California, Berkeley Alma mater Haverford College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Notable awards Beckman Young Investigators Award Doctoral advisor David Botstein, Marc Kirschner | ||
Other academic advisors Leland Hartwell | ||
Douglas E. Koshland Ph.D. is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of David Botstein. He then did his postdoctoral work with Leland Hartwell at University of Washington and with Marc Kirschner at the University of California, San Francisco.
He was a staff scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science from 1987 and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator from 1997-2012, was inducted into the National Academy of Science in 2010, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Personal life
Koshland is married to Mary Porter.