He is currently Chair and Member at the Sloan Kettering Institute of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
His mother is a former admissions counselor at the Andrews School and his father is a former psychotherapist.
[2] He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry from Ohio State University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Northwestern University.
Following this, he studied as a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow at Columbia University under the guidance of Wayne Hendrickson.
[2] Christopher D. Lima publications indexed by Google Scholar