Phillip D. Zamore, PhD, is the Gretchen Stone Cook Professor of Biomedical Sciences, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Chair of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. He earned his AB (1986) and PhD (1992) degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University. He then pursued postdoctoral studies at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He joined the faculty at UMass Chan in 1999. Zamore is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. His awards include the 2000 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, 2002 W.M. Keck Foundation Young Scholar in Medical Research Award, 2009 Schering-Plough Award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the 2015 UMass Chan Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Scholarship, and the 2024 RNA Society/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Distinguished Research Mentor Award.