Alan Wolffe, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlan Wolffe
cell biologist
Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1959
Date of Death: 26-May-2001
Profession: cell biologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Alan Wolffe
- Alan Wolffe (21 June 1959 – 26 May 2001) was a cell biologist known for his prominent role in establishing that the chromosomal organisation of genes is a dynamic phenomenon determining their expression, cell division and differentiation. He married Elizabeth and had two children, Max and Katherine. Wolffe was born on 21 June 1959 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
- He was successful at biology early on, receiving the Biological Council Prize upon leaving secondary school.
- He then attended Oxford University, receiving a first class B.A.
- degree in 1981.
- He did his PhD under Prof.
- Jamshed Tata at the National Institute for Medical Research, London.
- He was awarded an EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship in 1984 and moved to the laboratory of Donald D.
- Brown at the Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington in Baltimore.
- He joined the National Institute of Health in 1987, working firstly with Gary Felsenfeld in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases).
- In 1990 he was appointed Chief of the newly founded Laboratory of Molecular Embryology (LME).
- He left NIH and moved to the biotechnology firm Sangamo BioSciences Inc.
- in Richmond, California, in 2000, as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Office. He was a prolific writer, publishing hundreds of articles, literature reviews and two books.
- He will be known mainly for his work in promoting the idea that chromatin plays a dynamic role in regulating gene expression. He died as a result of injuries suffered in a road accident in Rio de Janeiro on 26 May 2001.
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