Director & Chief Executive Officer, Marine Biological Laboratory
Gary Borisy, Ph.D., is the President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. He is a molecular cell biologist best known for his research directed at understanding how cells crawl, how they divide and how they acquire their shape, all fundamental processes underlying cell function in health and disease. He has authored or co-authored over 200 papers and is a recipient of numerous awards including an NIH MERIT Award, the Carl Zeiss Award from the German Society for Cell Biology, and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past President of the American Society for Cell Biology.
Borisy is an active participant in professional organizations and a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards including those of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the International Barcode of Life, the Encyclopedia of Life and the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. Borisy received his Ph.D in biophysics from the University of Chicago and did postdoctoral study at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He then joined the University of Wisconsin as a faculty member, rising to professor in 1975 and chair of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1980 to 2000. He moved to Northwestern University in 2000, where he was the Leslie B. Arey professor of cell and molecular biology, distinguished investigator in the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, and associate vice president for biomedical research. Borisy assumed his current position at the MBL in 2006.
