James Shapiro

James Alan Shapiro is an American biologist and biochemist, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.

biography
Shapiro obtained his Bachelor's degree in English from Harvard College in 1964. He received a doctorate in genetics from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1968, and did postdoctoral research with Jon Beckwith at the Harvard Medical School and another postdoctorate with Harlyn Halvorson at Brandeis University.

He won the Darwin Prize from University of Edinburgh in 1993,

Shapiro was part of the first team to isolate a single gene from an organism, while working with Beckwith at Harvard.