Michael Rosbash

Michael Morris Rosbash (born March 7, 1944) is an American geneticist and chronobiologist of Jewish descent. Rosbash is a professor at Brandeis University^[1] and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop^[2] for circadian clocks in 1990.

Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash in Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017
Born	Michael Morris Rosbash (1944-03-07) March 7, 1944 (age 81) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Spouse	Nadja Abovich
Awards	Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2009) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Genetics Chronobiology
Institutions	University of Edinburgh Brandeis University Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Doctoral advisor	Sheldon Penman

Along with Michael W. Young and Jeffrey C. Hall, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".^[3][4]