Well, sort of. Jack Szostak PhD '77, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, is sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine with two other researchers. Interesting to note that he earned his PhD in Ithaca and not at the New York City Medical School.Szostak is a U.S. citizen. He was born in 1952 in London, England, and grew up in Canada. He studied at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his doctorate in 1977. He has been at Harvard Medical School since 1979 and is currently professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He also is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.