Gary G. Borisy is a retired president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Borisy received his BS in biochemistry (1962) and Ph.D. in biophysics (1966) under Edwin Taylor from the University of Chicago, characterizing tubulin and its role in cell division.

[2] He then did a postdoc at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England under Hugh Huxley.

In 2000, he moved to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he was the Leslie B. Arey professor of cell and molecular biology, distinguished investigator in the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, and associate vice president for biomedical research.

[6] Borisy has 3 children, Felice, a neurobiologist turned lawyer, Pippa, a musician, and Alexis, a biotech CEO.