Biography
Armin Dale Kaiser (November 10, 1927 – June 5, 2020) [ 1 ] was an American biochemist, molecular geneticist, molecular biologist and developmental biologist. [ 2 ] Kaiser received in 1950 his bachelor's degree from Purdue University and in 1955 his PhD from Caltech in biology. At Caltech he was in Max Delbrück 's bacteriophage group and received his PhD in biology under Jean Weigle with thesis A genetic analysis of bacteriophage lambda . Kaiser was in 1956 a postdoc at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (where he worked in Francois Jacob 's group) and afterward became an instructor and then in 1958 an assistant professor in microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis . In 1959 he became an assistant professor at Stanford University , where in 1966 he became a professor for biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine . From 1989-2020 he was also a professor of developmental biology. In the beginning of his career, Kaiser concentrated on the molecular genetics of bacteriophage lambda . He was especially concerned with the control mechanisms for lysogeny . He found one of the first examples of self-regulation of a gene ( cI , the repressor gene of lambda phage ) and later did pioneering work on molecular chaperones . Some of the methods developed by Kaiser's laboratory became important in genetic engineering.
About the Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodard Lasker (a medical research activist). The awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels."
Quick Facts
- Award: Lasker Award - Basic Medical Research
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Established: 1946
- Presented by: Lasker Foundation