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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)