David Schlessinger (born September 20, 1936, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian-born American biochemist, microbiologist, and geneticist.
[6] According to Schlessinger, his most important achievement "as a graduate student was to develop the first in vitro system that could actually make some little bits of protein" — this system enabled Arthur Kornberg and other researchers to determine the molecular mechanisms of the genetic code.
[1] As a postdoc, Schlessinger worked at the Pasteur Institute, where he was supervised by Jacques Monod.
In August 1962, Schlessinger with his wife and infant daughter, arrived in St. Louis, where he was to spend 35 years as a professor at Washington University in St.
[3] The purpose of NIA's SardiNIA Project is the identification of "genetic bases for prominent age-associatred changes".