Richard Losick, Ph.D.

Richard Losick is Professor emeritus at Harvard University. He previously held the positions of Maria Moors Cabot Professor, Harvard College Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.  He received his A.B. in Chemistry at Princeton University and his Ph.D. from MIT.  He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.  He is a past Chairman of the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a recipient of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Selman A. Waksman Award of the National Academy of Sciences, the Canada International Gairdner Award, and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry of Columbia University. Having taught introductory molecular biology for over 50 years, Losick now teaches a course on the History of Molecular Biology.