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 "Seventeen biologists and a rowboat" launch the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole - following the dictum of Louis Agassiz to "study nature, not books." |
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Director and CEO
Gary Borisy, Ph.D., is the Director and CEO of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Borisy brings a wealth of scientific expertise and administrative experience to the MBL. At various times throughout his career, Dr. Borisy has spent time at the MBL, conducting summer research; collaborating with resident and summer scientists; and participating in some of the MBL’s summer educational programs. He became the laboratory's 13th Director and 3rd CEO in 2006.
Dr. Borisy came to the MBL from Northwestern University where he was Associate Vice President for Research and the Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology in the Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his B.S. in biochemistry and his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Chicago. After serving a postdoctoral fellowship in H. E. Huxley’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the MRC in Cambridge, England, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He spent 32 years at Madison, rising through the professional ranks to Chairman of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Perlman-Bascom Professor of Life Sciences, before moving to Northwestern in 2000.
Dr. Borisy has received numerous professional honors throughout his career. He received an NIH MERIT Award. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology (2003); and received the Carl Zeiss Award in 2005 from the German Society for Cell Biology. He currently is a member of the Steering Committee and Chair of the Distinguished Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of Life project, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth, and is also a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the Scientific Advisory Board of the biotech company CombinatoRx.
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