Mark Schlissel Biography

Dr. Mark S. Schlissel was the 14th president of the University of Michigan and the first physician-scientist to lead the institution. He became president in July 2014. President Schlissel previously was provost of Brown University where he was responsible for all academic programmatic and budgetary functions within Brown's schools and colleges as well as the libraries research institutes and centers. A graduate of Princeton University (A.B. summa cum laude 1979 Biochemical Sciences) he earned both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1986 Physiological Chemistry). He did his residency training in internal medicine at Hopkins Hospital and conducted postdoctoral research as a Bristol-Myers Cancer Research Fellow under David Baltimore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute. President Schlissel began his career as a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1991 where he earned a number of awards and fellowships for his research and teaching. He moved to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley in 1999 as associate professor advancing to full professor in 2002. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in immunology as well as a large introductory course in biology for life science majors.

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