James Edwin Darnell Jr. (born September 9, 1930, Columbus, Mississippi) 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 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He became a member of the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

in 2013. Since 2013, Darnell has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education. 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 Dickson Prize * 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 Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science
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Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award The Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award is one of the four Lasker Awards given by the Lasker Foundation for medical research in the United States. The first award was given in 1994; it is not awarded every year. In 2008, the award was renamed t ...

* 2010 Hope Funds Award in Basic Research * 2012

Albany Medical Center Prize The Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research is the United States' second highest value prize in medicine and biomedical research, awarded by the Albany Medical Center. Among prizes for medicine worldwide, the Albany Medical ...

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