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Wassarman, Paul Michael

Paul Michael Wassarman (born March 26, 1940) is an American biological scientist who is a Professor in the Dept. of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC (1996-present). He was a faculty member at Purdue University (1970-1972), Harvard Medical School (1972-1986) and the Roche Institute (1986-1996).

Education Wassarman earned his bachelor's degree in ****** at Amherst (1961) and his PhD at Brandeis (1968) under the supervision of Nathan Kaplan. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology with John Kendrew (1967-70).

Research Wassarman’s main contributions lie in the areas of mammalian oogenesis and fertilization. His laboratory has identified and characterized proteins that make up the eggs’s zona pellucida (ZP), identified growing oocytes as the site of synthesis of ZP proteins, and demonstrated that ZP proteins serve as sperm receptors during fertilization.

Publications Wassarman has edited six volumes Methods in Enzymology, and written “A Guide to Zona Pellucida Domain Proteins” (John Wiley; 2015) and “A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew” (Oxford Univ. Press; 2020). He is the Editor of Current Topics in Developmental Biology and has published some 225 primary papers and reviews.

Awards Wassarman was an NIH predoctoral fellow (1964-1967), a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellow (1967-1970), Rockefeller Foundation Special Research Fellow (1972-1974), and Stratton Professorial Chair (2002-2007).