CURRICULUM VITAE

Alan B. Sachs


Date of birth:June 12, 1960
Place of birth:West Islip, NY

Address:
Division of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
401 Barker Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720


Education:

1982 A.B., Biochemistry, Cornell University

1987 Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, Stanford University with Roger Kornberg

1988 M.D., Stanford Medical School

1987-1989 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University with Ronald Davis


Professional Experience:

1989-1992 Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead Institute, MIT

1992-1998: Assistant Professor, Div. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley

1998-present Associate Professor, Div. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley


Honors and Distinctions:

1980 American Chemical Society undergraduate award for analytical chemistry, Cornell University

1981 Atlantic Richfield Company award to top five junior chemistry students, Cornell University

1982 Summa Cum Laude, Department of Biology, Cornell University

1982-1988 Medical Scientist Training Program, Stanford Medical School

1986 Admissions committee member, Medical Scientist Training Program, Stanford Medical School

1989 Leonard T. Skeggs Jr. Whitehead Institute Fellow

1992 Searle Family Trust Searle Scholar

1992 March of Dimes Basil O'Conner Starter Scholar

1996 Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award

1998 Promoted with tenure to Associate Professor

2000 (expected) Co-chair of Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference

Patent Disclosure:

"Rapid genotyping of restriction site polymorphisms" (1994)


Editorial duties:

Associate Editor, Molecular Cell
Associate Editor, RNA


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