Move To Yale and Later Years
After leaving Oberlin, he enrolled in the graduate program at the University of California, Berkeley, but later transferred to Yale University. He returned to Yale after completing postdoctoral work and remained there as a professor for over twenty years. During this time he was the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology & Immunobiology, chair of the Cell Biology Department, Scientific Director of the Yale Cancer Center and a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Mellman has served on the council of the American Society for Cell Biology and was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cell Biology from 1999-2008, he remains active as a Senior Editor for the journal.
Mellman is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
In 1977, he married Margaret Moench; the couple have three children.
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