Joel Rosenbaum, Ph.D.

Joel Rosenbaum, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and a faculty member since 1967, received the 2006 E.B. Wilson Medal, the American Society for Cell Biology’s highest honor for scientific research in November. The honor recognizes significant advances over a lifetime in the understanding of the assembly, maintenance and function of cilia and flagella, which are fine hair-like cell organelles that extend outward from the cell surface.