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Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch is a founding Member of the Whitehead Institute and professor of biology at MIT, received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Munich in 1967. He came to the Whitehead from the University of Hamburg in Germany, where he was head of the Department of Tumor Virology at the Heinrich Pette Institute. Jaenisch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1996, he was awarded the Boehringer Mannheim Molecular Bioanalytics Prize. He was named the first recipient of the Peter Gruber Foundation Award in Genetics in 2001 In 2003, he received the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for basic research in oncology and was named to the National Academy of Sciences. Rudolf Jaenisch has made important contributions to cloning technology and is one of the founders of transgenic science (gene transfer to create mouse models of human disease). | 