David Schlessinger

David Schlessinger, Ph.D., is currently National Institutes of Health Distinguished Investigator Emeritus and a Volunteer and Advisor to the Sardinian population study in the Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, which he founded at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in 1997. Previous to NIA, Dr. Schlessinger was Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Genetics, and Microbiology in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. He has trained more than 300 Fellows, many of whom have taken on leadership positions around the world. The scope of his interests in over 600 publications ranges from the action of antibiotics and the formation of ribosomes to the genetics of developmental and aging-related human traits and disease susceptibility. Dr. Schlessinger received his doctoral degree from Harvard University.