Michael Rosbash

Michael Rosbash is a renowned American geneticist and chronobiologist, born in 1944. He has established himself as a prominent figure in the field of biology, currently serving as a professor and researcher at Brandeis University, as well as an investigator at the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of circadian clocks, with his group achieving significant milestones, including the cloning of the Drosophila period gene in 1984.

Rosbash's contributions to the field of chronobiology have been widely recognized, with his research group making notable discoveries, such as the identification of the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila in 1998. His work, particularly the proposal of the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for circadian clocks in 1990, has been highly influential. Rosbash's achievements have earned him numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and, notably, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with Michael W. Young and Jeffrey C. Hall for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.