Gerald D. Fasman, Ph.D., is the Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry, Graduate
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Dr. Fasman graduated from the University of Alberta in 1948 with a B.S. Honors
Degree in Chemistry, and he received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1952 from the
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Dr. Fasman did postdoctoral
studies at Cambridge University, England, Eidg. Technische Hochschule, Zurich,
Switzerland, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel. Prior to moving to
Brandeis University, he spent several years at the Children’s Cancer Research Foundation
at the Harvard Medical School. He has been an Established Investigator of the American
Heart Association, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Japan,
and recently was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.
Dr. Fasman is a member of the American Chemical Society, a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, The Biophysical Society,
American Society of Biological Chemists, The Chemical Society (London), the New York
Academy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists. He has
published 180 research papers.