Stephen Elledge

Stephen Joseph Elledge (born August 7, 1956 in Paris Illinois) is an American geneticist. He is currently the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Genetics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He earned his B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and his Ph.D. in biology from MIT.[1] His research is focused on the genetic and molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic response to DNA damage. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1993.

Stephen J. Elledge
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
MIT
Stanford University
AwardsNAS Award in Molecular Biology (2002)
Genetics Society of America Medal (2005)
Dickson Prize (2010)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (2013)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research(2015)
Gruber Prize in Genetics (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
Molecular Biology
InstitutionsBrigham and Women's Hospital

Awards

2002 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award in Molecular Biology

2005 Hans Sigrist Prize[2]

2005 Genetics Society of America Medal

2010 Dickson Prize

2012 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science from Brandeis University.[3]

2013 Gairdner Foundation International Award

2015 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research alongside Evelyn Witkin "for discoveries concerning the DNA-damage response—a fundamental mechanism that protects the genomes of all living organisms".[4]

2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

2017 Gruber Prize in Genetics.[5]

References
  1. Brownlee, Christen (2004). "Biography of Stephen J. Elledge". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (10): 3336–3337. doi:10.1073/pnas.0400868101. PMC 373462. PMID 14993590.
  2. "Hans Sigrist Prize Winners". The Hans Sigrist Foundation. 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. Rosenstiel Award
  4. Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 2015
  5. 2017 Gruber Prize in Genetics


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