John Morrow, M.D., Ph.D. (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Education: Yale University, New Haven CT
Graduate School: Stanford University, Stanford CA
Medical School: Duke University, Durham NC and University of Miami, Miami FL
Residency: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD and George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York NY
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Carnegie Institution for Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Bio: Dr. Morrow’s academic career began as an undergraduate at Yale University graduating with honors in Biophysics and Biochemistry before attending the basic science of his medical education at Duke University.
He left Duke to complete his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in the Stanford University lab of Professor Paul Berg who received his Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his foundational work in the field of recombinant DNA technology in 1980. Dr. Morrow made seminal contributions to the fields of virology and genetics in his work with Professor Berg on the mapping and function of SV40 virus that would lead to the first recombinant DNA molecule by splicing this viral genome with the bacterial E. coli genome. Dr. Morrow would go on to his post-doctoral fellowship at the prestigious Carnegie Institution for Science at Johns University with significant publications in emerging recombinant DNA technology and bacteriology.
Dr. Morrow would then spend an entire career in academia first as an assistant professor at the Harvard University Medical School then as an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before deciding to finish his own medical degree at the University of Miami in Florida. After his residency at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Morrow joined the faculty of the Brown University School of Medicine in Rhode Island.
During his journey through academia, Dr. Morrow found the time to become a founder of the Genex Corporation, a pioneering early biotechnology company in Maryland in 1978. Dr. Morrow’s other personal accomplishments include an exhibit featuring him at the Smithsonian Institute, Museum of American history, and his co-authorship of notable texts in the field of urologic pathology. Dr. Morrow retired in Napa but continues to keep his interest in pathology working on the medical staff of Queen of the Valley medical center part-time.
Dr. Morrow is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology as well as cytology.