James E. Darnell

James Edwin Darnell Jr. (born September 9, 1930, Columbus, Mississippi) is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology. He is the Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus of Molecular Cell Biology at The Rockefeller University.

In 2004, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.

Since 2013, Darnell has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.

He is married to Norwegian former model and dress shop owner Kristin Holby, known as "Clotilde", whose daughter Phoebe, a financial analyst, is married to businessman Divya Narendra.

Awards

1999 Dickson Prize 1999 Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award 2002 National Medal of Science 2002 Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award 2010 Hope Funds Award in Basic Research 2012 Albany Medical Center Prize