Amar Klar

Amar Jit Singh Klar (April 1, 1947 – March 5, 2017) was an Indian-American yeast geneticist and epigenetics researcher.

Early life and education Klar was born on April 1, 1947, in Lyallpur, which was then part of Punjab, India, but is now part of Pakistan. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1967 and his master's degree in 1969, both from Punjab Agricultural University. In 1975, he received his Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied under Harlyn O. Halvorson. He then completed a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career In 1978, after getting a phone call from James Watson, Klar began doing yeast research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). He continued to work there until 1988, and served as director of their Delbrück Laboratory from 1985 until then. In 1999, he joined the National Institutes of Health's Center for Cancer Research located in Frederick