Jack Szostak

Experience

• 2022-present: Professor, University of Chicago
• 2012-2022: Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
• 2000-present: Alex Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
• 1998-present: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Research Focus Area

• Origins of Life
• Self-replicating RNA

Awards and Honors

• Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, 2009
• H.P. Heineken Prize in Biophysics and Biochemistry, 2008
• Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, 2006
• Medal of the Genetics Society of America, 2000
• Sigrist Prize, University of Bern, 1997
• National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, 1994
• Member, National Academy of Sciences
• Member, American Philosophical Society
• Fellow, Royal Society
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science