James Edwin Darnell Jr. (born September 9, 1930,

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) is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook ''Molecular Cell Biology''. In 2004, he was elected a foreign member of the

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. He became a member of the

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in 2013. Since 2013, Darnell has been listed on the Advisory Council of the

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. He is married to Norwegian former model and dress shop owner Kristin Holby, known as "Clotilde", whose daughter Phoebe, a financial analyst, is married to businessman

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Awards

* 1999

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* 1999 Cancer Research Institute

William B. Coley Award The William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology is presented annually by the Cancer Research Institute, to scientists who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of basic and tumor immunology and whose w ...

* 2002 National Medal of ScienceNational Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science
/ref> * 2002 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award * 2010 Hope Funds Award in Basic Research * 2012 Albany Medical Center Prize

References

External links

Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology (James Darnell's Lab at The Rockefeller University)
Living people 21st-century American biologists American textbook writers American male non-fiction writers National Medal of Science laureates Foreign Members of the Royal Society Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Place of birth missing (living people) 1930 births Rockefeller University people Fellows of the AACR Academy {{US-scientist-stub