Leland H. Hartwell

Leland Harrison Hartwell is an American geneticist who was president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He took his bachelor degree at the California Institute of Technology and his doctorate in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught at the University of California, Irvine, and moved to the University of Washington in 1968. Working in baker's yeast he discovered the cell division cycle genes and identified the role of checkpoints in cell cycle control. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt. In 2009 it was announced that he would join the faculty of Arizona State University.