Paul M. Wassarman

He edited six volumes of Methods in Enzymology and four volumes of Current Topics in Developmental Biology, was series editor of Advances in Developmental Biology/Biochemistry, has been series editor of Current Topics in Developmental Biology since 2007, and authored "A Guide to Zona Pellucida Protein Domains" (Wiley, 2015) and "A Place in History: the Biography of John Kendrew" (Oxford University Press, 2020).

He was a faculty member in the Dept. of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School (1972–1986) and the Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (1986–1996; Chairman 1987-1992).

He earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Massachusetts, a PhD in biochemistry from Brandeis University (1963–1967; Advisor N.O.Kaplan) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England (1967–1970; Sponsor, J.C.Kendrew).

Paul Michael Wassarman (born March 26, 1940) is an American biologist who has been Professor in the Dept. of Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 1996 (Chairman 2000-2007). His laboratory identified and characterised proteins that make up the zona pellucida (ZP) of mammalian eggs and determined their role in fertilisation.