Philip Zamore

Phillip Zamore received his undergraduate and PhD degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University before completing postdoctoral studies at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Today, he is the Gretchen Stone Cook Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and managing co-director of the RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School. His lab studies small RNA silencing pathways in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and in 2015 he received the Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in Scholarship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Nature Biotechnology selected him as one of the Top 20 Translational Researchers of 2014.