Harvey Lodish

Harvey F. Lodish is a Professor of Biology and Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Associate (Foreign) Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

During 2004 Dr. Lodish served as President of the American Society for Cell Biology. He received the 2010 Mentoring Award from the American Society of Hematology, the 2016 American Society for Cell Biology WICB Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Mentoring Award, the 2020 Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Experimental Hematology, and the 2021 Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology from the American Society of Hematology.

He is the lead author of the widely used textbook Molecular Cell Biology. The book has been translated into 14 languages and the ninth edition was published in January, 2021.

Prof. Lodish is a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston Children’s Hospital. He was also Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the group charged with oversight of the state’s 10 year, $1 billion investment in the life sciences.