Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School, Dr. King was a fellow at the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard, where he developed new approaches in chemical genetics, including instrumentation used for the synthesis and screening of arrayed split-pool chemical libraries. Dr.King co-founded the drug discovery company Kalypsys in 2001, and served on its science advisory board for four years. He received an MD from Harvard Medical School after receiving a PhD from Mark Kirschner’s laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Carleton College in 1987.