Fred "Rusty" Gage

Adler Professor

Dr. Gage is the Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics, and immediate past President of the Salk Institute. He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Salk, Dr. Gage was a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego and remains an Adjunct Professor. Dr. Gage's work concentrates on the adult central nervous system and unexpected plasticity and adaptability to environmental stimulation that remains throughout the life of all mammals. In addition, he models human neurological and psychiatric disease in vitro using human stem cells. His lab also studies the genomic mosaicism that exists in the brain as a result of mobile elements that are active during neurogenesis.

Dr. Gage is a Fellow of the AAAS, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, and American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the EMBO and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2002, and of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in 2012.