Date and Place of Birth: September 11, 1955, New Haven, Connecticut

Education:

•  A.B., 1978, Harvard University, Biochemical Sciences
•  Ph.D., 1983, M. I. T.,  Biology

• 1977 - 1978  Research Assistant with Dr. Don C. Wiley, Biophysics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1979 - 1983  Doctoral Researcher, joint with Drs. David Botstein and Christopher Walsh, Biology Department, Mass. Inst. Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1983 - 1987  Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Nicholas Cozzarelli, Molecular Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, California
• 1987 - 1994  Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• 1994 - 1996  Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• 1996 - 1997  Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• 1998 - 1999  Nearburg Family Professor of Basic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• 1999 - present  Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

• 1975              John Harvard Scholarship for Academic Distinction
• 1978 - 1981  National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
• 1983 - 1985  Miller Fellowship, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley
• 1985 - 1992  Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award in Biomedical Science
• 1988 - 1993  David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
• 2007             Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, University of California, San Diego