Roger Kornberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Kornberg has been a professor of structural biology at Stanford Medical School since 1978. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the process whereby information in DNA is read out for the direction of all activities of all organisms, including humans. Dr. Kornberg began his career as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, and went on to be an assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School, before moving to his current position. Dr. Kornberg is also the recipient of the 2006 Dickson Prize from the University of Pittsburgh and the 2006 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. In 2009, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Dr. Kornberg holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford, where he was supervised by Harden M. McConnell.