Professor Jeffrey M. Friedman

Jeffrey Friedman attended the Six-Year Medical Program at Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y., obtaining a B.S. (magna cum laude) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973 and an M.D. from Albany Medical College at Union University in 1977. After completing residencies as a categorical intern in 1977-1978, an assistant resident in 1978-1979, and a chief resident in 1979-1980 in the Department of Medicine at Albany Medical Center Hospital in Albany, N.Y., and serving for one year as a post-graduate fellow at Cornell University Medical College in 1980-1981, he came to Rockefeller University as a post-graduate fellow and an associate physician in 1980-1985. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 and was appointed an Assistant Professor in 1986-1991 at the same University. He is currently a full Professor at Rockefeller University, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in New York, the Marilyn M. Simpson professor, and the Director of the Star Center for Human Genetics at Rockefeller.

Professor Friedman’s achievements have been recognized by numerous awards and honors, including Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Shaw Prize, Keio Medical Science Prize, Danone International Prize for Nutrition, Gairdner Foundation International Award, Passano Foundation Award, Heinrich Wieland Prize, Banting Lecture Award, Jesse Stevenson Kovalenko Medal, Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal and Honorary Doctorate in Medical Genetics from Maastricht University. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and its Institute of Medicine, an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was listed in “Best of Science” by Times Magazine both in 1994 and 1995 and was also named Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in 2010. Professor Friedman is also associate and founding editor of Cell Metabolism.

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