Jack Greenblatt is the Ann and Max Tannenbaum Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
He has been a recipient of a Medical Research Council of Canada Distinguished Scientist Award, and an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
[1] He earned a BSc (First Class Honours in Physics) from McGill University in 1967.
[2] Greenblatt received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1973, studying under Walter Gilbert,[3] and his postdoctoral training at the University of Geneva and the Pasteur Institute.
Greenblatt's group has discovered important protein factors required for initiation of transcription in eukaryotic cells.