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American biologist

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1940 · age 86
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Gerald Ralph Fink is an American biologist, who was Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1990 to 2001. D. from Yale University in 1965, having elucidated the histidine pathway in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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2020Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
2015Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2010Gruber Prize in Genetics
2001George W. Beadle Award
1992Wilbur Cross Medal
1982Genetics Society of America Medal
1981NAS Award in Molecular Biology
1974Guggenheim Fellowship

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Gerald Ralph Fink is an American biologist, who was Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1990 to 2001. He graduated from Amherst College in 1962 and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965, having elucidated the histidine pathway in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After postdoctoral study at the National Institutes of Health with Bruce Ames on the regulation of the histidine operon of Salmonella, in 1967 he joined Cornell University where he became a Professor of Genetics and pursued the study of the HIS4 region of yeast. In 1982 he became a founding member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Genetics at MIT. Dr. Fink was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1981, to the Institute of Medicine in 1996, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.

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Born 1940 · age 86
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