Errol Friedberg
Errol Friedberg currently serves as the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.He is biologist and historian of science. He received his M.D. from University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He did his residency in pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1963-1964 and at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in 1965. He continued with his fellowship training in biochemistry at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
His research interests focus on DNA repair and its relationship to carcinogenesis. Errol Friedberg is the author of books such as Sydney Brenner: A Biography, Sydney Brenner: My Life in Science, The Writing Life of James D. Watson and DNA Repair and Mutagenesis.
Errol Friedberg is a Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology and American Association for the Advancement of Science and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal DNA Repair. He received Rous Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology and Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research.
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