Allan C. Spradling | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1983) Genetics Society of America Medal (1989) Edwin Grant Conklin Medal (2003) George W. Beadle Award (2003)[1] Gruber Prize in Genetics (2008) March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2018) Wiley Prize (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Institution for Science, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Allan C. Spradling is an American scientist and principal investigator at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who studies egg development in the model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a fruit fly.[2] He is considered a leading researcher in the developmental genetics of the fruit fly egg and has developed a number of techniques in his career that have led to greater understanding of fruit fly genetics including contributions to sequencing its genome.[2] He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.[2]