Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2013 Laureate

Michael Rosbash was born in 1944 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA and is currently Professor of Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Brandeis University. He obtained his PhD in Biophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, did postdoctoral work at the Institute of Animal Genetics, the University of Edinburgh, UK (1972–1974). He then joined Brandeis University, where in the Department of Biology he was successively Assistant Professor (1973–1980), Associate Professor (1980–1986) and Professor (1986–); he has held the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience since 2012. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2013 is awarded in equal shares to Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young for their discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms.