David Botstein | |
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Born | September 8, 1942 | (age 82)
Alma mater | Harvard University University of Michigan |
Known for | Genetic linkage map using restriction fragment length polymorphisms |
Relatives | Leon Botstein (brother) |
Awards | Eli Lilly and Company Award in Microbiology (1978) Genetics Society of America Medal (1988)[1] Allan Award of the American Society of Human Genetics (1989) Rosenstiel Award (1991) Novartis-Drew Award (2003) Gruber Prize in Genetics (2003) Albany Medical Center Prize (2010) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2013) Double Helix Medal (2015)[2] Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2020) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics |
Institutions | MIT Stanford University Genentech Princeton University |
Thesis | The Synthesis and Maturation of Phage-P22 DNA (1967) |
Doctoral students | Olga Troyanskaya[3] Fred Winston Douglas Koshland Tim Stearns |
Other notable students | Michael Eisen (postdoc) |
Website | www molbio |
David Botstein (born September 8, 1942) is an American biologist who is the chief scientific officer of Calico. He was the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University[4][5][6][7] from 2003 to 2013, where he remains an Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics.