Professor David M. Livingston received his A.B. from Harvard and his M.D. (Magna Cum Laude) from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1965. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, followed by research fellowships at the National Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. In 1973, he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and DFCI as an assistant professor and rose to full professorship in 1982.

Professor Livingston is chief of the Charles A. Dana Division of Human Cancer Genetics at Dana-Farber, the deputy director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and the Emil Frei Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He has received numerous prizes and awards ¡V such as the AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Awards (2005) and The Boveri Award (2005) from the German Cancer Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, its Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.