Andy McMahon

Andrew P. McMahon completed his Ph.D. at University College London, in the UK in 1981. He worked for three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology before returning to the UK in 1984 to take on the position of Staff Scientist at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1988, he joined Roche Institute for Molecular Biology in New Jersey, and was later appointed Head of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology in the same institute in 1991. He moved to assume a Professorship at Harvard University in 1993, and was appointed Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science in 1999. He also served as Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology of Harvard University from 2001 to 2004. Professor McMahon is currently a member of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a principle investigator within the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

Dr. McMahon is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), and the Royal Society, UK (2007), as well as an elected Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (2003). He has also served as an editor of the journals Development and Developmental Biology, and served on the editorial boards of several other scientific journals, including Genes and Development and Current Biology,

His group is interested in understanding the mechanisms that generate complex structures in the developing mammalian embryo, focusing on the mammalian kidney, neural tube and limb skeleton.