Joshua Lederberg
Director
Infectious Diseases
NAP
India
Biography
Professor emeritus of molecular genetics and informatics and Sackler Foundation Scholar at The Rockefeller University, New York, New York. His lifelong research, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1958, has been in genetic structure and function in microorganisms. He has a keen interest in international health and was cochair of a previous Institute of Medicine committee, the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health (1990–1992). He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1957 and is a charter member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Lederberg is the chair of the Forum on Emerging Infections.
Research Interest
Professor emeritus of molecular genetics and informatics and Sackler Foundation Scholar at The Rockefeller University, New York, New York. His lifelong research, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1958, has been in genetic structure and function in microorganisms. He has a keen interest in international health and was cochair of a previous Institute of Medicine committee, the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health (1990–1992). He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1957 and is a charter member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Lederberg is the chair of the Forum on Emerging Infections.
