[1][2] Grossman received a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry from Brown University in 1979.
[3] Grossman completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology at Harvard University before joining MIT's biology department in 1988.
[4] Initially, his research was focused on characterization of bacterial chromosome segregation.
His group was among the first that identified the Spo0J protein, the homologue of ParB, responsible for the process of chromosome segregation in B.
He has discussed the experience publicly and encouraged others to consider organ donation.