Maxwell G. Heiman PhD

Dr. Heiman received his Ph.D. from UCSF 1997-2003, where he worked with Dr. Peter Walter and identified the first genes shown to be required for cell-cell fusion during yeast mating. He received his postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University 2003-2011 with Dr. Shai Shaham, where he studied the genetic control of cell shape using the sensory neurons and glia of C.elegans as a model system. In 2011, he started his own research group jointly between the Division of Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He has been an HHMI predoctoral fellow, a Jane Coffin Child's postdoctoral fellow, and a March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Scholar, and he is the recipient of an unnamed chair in Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics.