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President and Director
Gary Borisy, Ph.D., is the President and Director 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 research; collaborating with scientists; and participating in some of the MBL’s educational programs.
Dr. Borisy became the laboratory's 13th Director in 2006. Previously he was Associate Vice President for Research and the Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After serving a postdoctoral fellowship at the MRC in Cambridge, England, Dr. Borisy joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, 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 is the author of more than 200 papers, the editor of two books, and has received numerous professional honors, including an NIH Merit award and the Carl Zeiss award from the German Society for Cell Biology and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past President of the American Society for Cell Biology.
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