M. Daniel Lane

Malcolm Daniel Lane (1930 – April 10, 2014) was an American biochemist who spent most of his career on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Lane served as the head of the Department of Biological Chemistry from 1978 to 1997, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and was named a University Distinguished Service Professor – the institution's highest academic title – in 2001. Lane's research focused on the biochemistry of lipids and lipid metabolism, and the resulting physiological mechanisms regulating adipogenesis and obesity.

Early life and education Lane was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 10, 1930, to Malcolm Daniel Lane Snr, an accountant at the Herald Tribune and Helga Wilke who was of Danish origin. He attended Iowa State University and received his B.S. in 1951 and his M.S. in 1953. He then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1956.

Lane retired from his faculty position, assuming professor emeritus status, in 2008. Received a National Institutes of Health MERIT award, 1990 Elected to the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, 1996 Named Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor, 2001