Robert E. Kingston

Robert E. Kingston (born in 1954) is an American biochemist and geneticist who studies the functional and regulatory role nucleosomes play in gene expression, specifically during early development. After receiving his PhD (1981) and completing post-doctoral research, Kingston became an assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital (1985), where he started a research laboratory focused on understanding chromatin's structure with regards to transcriptional regulation. As a Harvard graduate himself, Kingston has served his ''alma mater'' through his leadership.

He was the head of the Harvard's Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD program from 2004 to 2007, the chair of the molecular biology department at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2005 to 2023, the vice-chair of the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and the chair of the executive committee on research at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2012 to 2015. In November 2022, he was appointed as the inaugural Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President for Research and Education for Massachusetts General Hospital effective January 2023.

In addition to being a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, Kingston frequently organizes conferences and performs editorials on his research interests. In 2016, he was elected by his peers to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Provided by Wikipedia