GERALD M. RUBIN

Dr. Rubin, Vice-President for Biomedical Research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, received his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge in England. He did postdoctoral work at the Stanford University School of Medicine before joining Harvard Medical School in 1977 as an assistant professor of biological chemistry. In 1980 he joined the Carnegie Institution of Washington as a staff member in the department of embryology, and three years later he moved to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, as the John D. MacArthur Professor of Genetics. He has been a Howard Hughes investigator since 1987. Dr. Rubin is a leader of the effort to sequence the entire genome of the fruit fly Drosophila. In addition, his laboratory has used a variety of genetic techniques to determine the function of fruit fly genes that have homology to human genes. Dr. Rubin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.