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Bruce Alberts
Dan
Burkhardt
France A. Córdova
William
H. Danforth
Brady J.
Deaton
Hugh Grant
Richard
Herman
David W.
Kemper
Alex F.
McCalla
John
F. McDonnell
Philip
Needleman
Peter H.
Raven
Alfonso
Romo Garza
P. Roy
Vagelos
Robert L.
Virgil
Mark S.
Wrighton
Usha
Barwale Zehr
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Board of Trustees
Bruce Alberts, Ph.D.
President
National Academy of Sciences
Bruce Alberts, president
of the National Academy of
Sciences in Washington, D.C., is
a respected biochemist
recognized for his work both in
biochemistry and molecular
biology. He is noted
particularly for his extensive
study of the protein complexes
that allow chromosomes to be
replicated, as required for a
living cell to divide.
He has spent his career making
significant contributions to the
field of life sciences, serving
in different capacities on a
number of prestigious advisory
and editorial boards, including
as chair of the Commission on
Life Sciences, National Research
Council. Until his election as
President of the Academy, he was
president-elect of the American
Society of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology.
Born in 1938 in Chicago,
Illinois, Alberts graduated from
Harvard College in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, with a degree in
biochemical sciences. He earned
a doctorate from Harvard
University in 1965. He joined
the faculty of Princeton
University in 1966 and after ten
years was appointed professor
and vice chair of the Department
of Biochemistry and Biophysics
at the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF). In 1980,
he was awarded the honor of an
American Cancer Society Lifetime
Research Professorship. In 1985,
he was named chair of the UCSF
Department of Biochemistry and
Biophysics.
Alberts has long been committed
to the improvement of science
education, dedicating much of
his time to educational projects
such as City Science, a program
seeking to improve science
teaching in San Francisco
elementary schools. He has
served on the advisory board of
the National Science Resources
Center-a joint project of the
National Academy of Sciences and
the Smithsonian Institution
working with teachers,
scientists, and school systems
to improve teaching of
science-as well as on the
National Academy of Sciences'
National Committee on Science
Education Standards and
Assessment.
He is a principal author of The
Molecular Biology of the Cell,
considered the leading textbook
of its kind and used widely in
U.S. colleges and universities.
His most recent text, Essential
Cell Biology (1997), is intended
to approach this subject matter
for a wider audience.
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