Graham F. Hatfull | |
Birth Date: | 22 August 1957 |
Birth Place: | Maidstone, Kent, England |
Citizenship: | US, UK |
Fields: | Bacteriophage biology, Microbiology |
Workplaces: | Yale University MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Pittsburgh |
Alma Mater: | Westfield College, University of London University of Edinburgh |
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Doctoral Advisor: | Willie Donachie |
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Website: | http://hatfull.org |
Graham F. Hatfull is the Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he studies bacteriophages.[1] He has been an HHMI professor since 2002, and is the creator of their SEA-PHAGES program.[2] In 2024, he was elected as a permanent member of the National Academy of Sciences.[3]
Hatfull studied biological sciences at Westfield College, University of London from 1975 to 1978.[4] He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1981.[1] He did postdoctoral research at Yale University and the Medical Research Council.[4]
In 2002,[5] he developed the SEA-PHAGES, originally the PHIRE (Phage Hunters Integrating Research and Education) program,[6] which he originally developed to include 10-12 students per year.[2] The program existed only at the University of Pittsburgh from 2002 to 2008, when the HHMI created the Science Education Alliance Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) program. The first year of SEA-PHAGES, the program had 12 participative universities. The program has since spread to more than 100 universities and thousands of students per year.[2] [7]
Hatfull is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2020 became a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[8]
He is also the winner of the 2013 Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award [9] and the 2020 Peter Wildy Prize.[10]
In 2024, Hatfull was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[11] According to the Academy "[members] are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Current NAS membership totals approximately 2,400 members and 500 international members, of which approximately 190 have received Nobel prizes."[12]