Stephen Elledge

Stephen J. Elledge
Alma mater	University of Illinois MIT Stanford University
Awards	NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2002) Genetics Society of America Medal (2005) Dickson Prize (2010) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2013) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research(2015) Gruber Prize in Genetics (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Genetics Molecular Biology
Institutions	Brigham and Women's Hospital

Stephen Joseph Elledge (born August 7, 1956 in Paris Illinois) is an American geneticist. He is currently the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Genetics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He earned his B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and his Ph.D. in biology from MIT. His research is focused on the genetic and molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic response to DNA damage. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1993.

In 2012, he was awarded the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science from Brandeis University. In 2015, he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research alongside Evelyn Witkin "for discoveries concerning the DNA-damage response—a fundamental mechanism that protects the genomes of all living organisms". In 2016, he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg established the Breakthrough Prize five years ago with the belief that our society should celebrate the scientists who advance our understanding of the world as much as we celebrate our actors, athletes and entrepreneurs. In 2017 he received the Gruber Prize in Genetics.

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