Jack Greenblatt is the Ann and Max Tannenbaum Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He has been a recipient of a Medical Research Council of Canada Distinguished Scientist Award, and an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Greenblatt received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University and his postdoctoral training at the University of Geneva and the Pasteur Institute.
Greenblatt's group has discovered important protein factors required for initiation of transcription in eukaryotic cells.