Aaron J. Shatkin (18 July 1934 – 4 June 2012) was an American professor and director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University and a scientist at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
He earned a PhD from The Rockefeller University in 1961, working in the laboratory of Edward Tatum studying Neurospora crassa.
[1] Shatkin began studying reoviruses as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health with Norman Salzman.
He then opened his own laboratory at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, New Jersey, studying mRNA in reoviruses.
[2] He was the founding director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers and a scientist at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.