David C. Page

Biography

Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1992, he founded the Whitehead Task Force on Genetics and Public Policy.  Page serves on the Selection Committees of the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, and the Taubman Prize in Translational Medical Science.  He is a member of the advisory boards of Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Searle Scholar Program, and the Board of Directors of PepsiCo.  Page trained in the laboratory of David Botstein, at MIT, while earning an M.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program

Research Interest

Whitehead Institute Director David C. Page studies the genetic differences between males and females.  In particular, the Page lab is focused on understanding the biology and evolution of sex chromosomes (X and Y), the role that the X and Y chromosomes play in fundamental sex differences beyond the reproductive tract, and the origins and development of germ cells – the precursors of eggs and sperm