David C. Page

David C. Page, MD is a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, an independent non-profit research and educational institute affiliated with MIT and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research focuses on the genetic and molecular differences between males and females, and the roles that these differences play in health and disease. He served as Director and President of the Whitehead Institute from 2005 to 2020. In this role, Dr. Page led a group of scientists focused on cancer research, genetics, genomics, developmental biology, stem cell research, regenerative medicine, parasitic disease and plant biology. His honors include a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, Science magazine’s Top Ten Scientific Advances of the Year (in 1992 and again in 2003) and the 2011 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Page serves as the chair of the Visiting Committee for Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine.