Philip Hanawalt

Philip Hanawalt is Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor in the biological sciences department and professor of dermatology at Stanford University. Hanawalt discovered DNA repair replication in 1963 while working with E. coli. Repair replication of DNA is the process by which cells deal with damage to their genetic material (for example through environmental radiation and chemical carcinogens).

Hanawalt was trained in biophysics at Yale University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1959. He was an undergraduate at Deep Springs College and Oberlin College, where he is currently a trustee.

He is married to Graciela Spivak and has 4 children, David Hanawalt, Steve Hanawalt, Alexis Hanawalt, and Lisa Hanawalt.

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