University of Pennsylvania
Ben Black
- 2024
- Participant
- Life Sciences
Ben Black holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. After a four-year postdoctoral fellowship with Don Cleveland at UCSD in the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Ben started his own group at Penn to continue the work he had started in the area of chromosome biology. There, he is the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation Professor. He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances and the Biochemical Journal. Recently, his innovations with synthetic human chromosomes were recognized with the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award.
Ben Black is a 2024 Falling Walls Winner in the Life Sciences category.