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Charles David Allis, Michael Grunstein

Sep 11, 2018

Charles David Allis and Michael Grunstein have been awarded the 2018 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research award for their discoveries showing how gene expression is influenced by the chemical modification of histones. Allis is the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor at Rockefeller University, where he heads the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics. Grunstein is professor emeritus in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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