Phillip A. Sharp Election Year 2008 Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rm. 76-461A
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, U.S.A. Tel: (617) 253-6421 / Fax: (617) 253-3867
Current Positions
Institute Professor (highest academic rank), MIT
Education
B.A., Chemistry & Mathematics, Union College, Barbourville, KY (1966)
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana (1969)
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1969-1971)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1971-1972)
Professional Experience
Senior Research Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (1972-1974)
Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (previously the Center for Cancer Research), and Department of Biology, MIT (1979—)
Director, Center for Cancer Research, MIT (1985-1991)
Head, Department of Biology, MIT (1991-1999)
Institute Professor, MIT (1999—)
Director, The McGovern Institute (2000-2004)
Specialties
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
Awards and Honors
Recipient of an American Cancer Society Career Development Award (1974-1979)
The National Academy of Sciences' U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology (1980)
The Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (1980)
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983)
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1983)
The Harvey Society Lecture (1985)
The Howard Ricketts Award, The University of Chicago (1985)
The General Motors Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize for Cancer Research (1986)
The New York Academy of Sciences Award in Biological and Medical Sciences (1986)
Elected Councilor of the National Academy of Sciences (1987-1990)
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1987)
Elected Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (1991)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993)
KT Wang Foundation Bioorganic Chemistry Lecturer, The National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2005)
The 2004 National Medal of Science (2005)
The Inaugural Double Helix Medal for Scientific Research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2006)
Honorary Doctorate, Eberly College of Science (Penn State), State College, Pennsylvania (2008)
Honorary Academician of Academia Sinica, Republic of China (2008)
Honorary Academician of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan (2009)
AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research (2010)
Elected Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society, UK (2011)
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, University of Minnesota (2011)
Honorary degree of Doctor of Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada (2012)
Elected Fellow of the AACR Academy (2013)
The Lifetime Achievement in Science Award from the RNA Society (2013)
Award of Excellence from the Hope Funds for Cancer Research (2013)
President, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)(2013-2014)
Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Board (2014-2015)
Honorary degree of Doctor of Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014)
Honorary degree of Doctor of Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2014)
Othmer Gold Medal, Chemical Heritage Foundation (2015)
Honorary degree of Doctor of Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (2016)
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award for Sustained National Leadership, Research America, Washington, DC (2017)
Shattuck Lecture, Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, MA (2017)