Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder (born June 3, 1942, in Boonville, Indiana, United States) is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003. He currently serves as Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University.

Biography

Roeder was born in Boonville, Indiana, USA in 1942. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in chemistry from Wabash College and his M.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1969 from the University of Washington, Seattle, where he worked with William J. Rutter. He did postdoctoral work with Donald D. Brown at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Baltimore, from 1969 to 1971. He was a member of the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis from 1971 to 1982, when he joined The Rockefeller University. In 1985, he was named Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1988 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, and a foreign associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2003.

Honours and awards

• 1977: American Chemical Society, Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
• 1986: NAS Award in Molecular Biology
• 1988: Member, National Academy of Sciences
• 1988: Harvey Society Lecturer
• 1990: Honorary Doctor of Science from Wabash College
• 1992: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 1995: Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science
• 1995: Passano Award
• 1995: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1999: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
• 1999: General Motors Cancer Research Foundation’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize (shared with Robert Tjian) [21]
• 2000: Gairdner Foundation International Award
• 2001: Dickson Prize in Medicine from University of Pittsburgh
• 2002: ASBMB-Merck Award
• 2003: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• 2003: Foreign Associate Member, European Molecular Biology Organization
• 2005: Honorary Doctor of Science from Washington University in St. Louis
• 2010: Salk Institute Medal for Research Excellence
• 2012: Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research