Mark A. Krasnow is a Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine.
in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1978, his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1983, and his M.D.
He did his postdoctoral work on the Ultrabithorax gene with David Hogness at Stanford University.
His research is focused on understanding the molecular, genetic, and cellular mechanisms of tracheal development using drosophila and mice.
He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1997 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.