Gerald Ralph Fink is an American biologist born July 1, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York, who directed the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 to 2001. In 1977 he discovered a method for transforming yeast cells with foreign DNA, opening baker yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to modern genetic manipulation, and his later research described the histidine biosynthesis pathway in yeast and, in 1992, identified the ability of yeast to switch between single-celled and filamentous growth forms. He received the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology in 1981, the Genetics Society of America Medal in 1982, the George W. Beadle Award in 2001, the Gruber Prize in Genetics in 2010, and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal in 2020, and served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.
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Gerald Ralph Fink (born July 1, 1940) is an American biologist, who was Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1990 to 2001.
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