Jonathan Warner is currently a Buchler Professor of Transgenic Medicine in Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his BS in physics from Yale University in 1958 and Ph.D. in biophysics form Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. He did his post-doctoral research in molecular biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1963-1964) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1964-1965).

Between 1965 and 1968 he was an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After that he became an Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. He spent around two years (1971-1972) as a Visiting Fellow at Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. Professor Warner returned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine accepted a position as a professor of biochemistry and cell biology from 1974 till 1983 and Director of the Sue Golding Graduate Division (1972-1983). From 1983 till 1998 he served as a Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology.

His research and publications focuses on ribosomal protein genes, synthesis and assembly of ribosomes and its regulation in eukaryotic cells and transcription and processing of RNA nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions.

Among numerous advisory activities he served as a member of Scientific Advisory Committee, American Cancer Society and as a member of Cold Spring Harbor Board of Trustees (1987-1992). He was also a member Organizing Committee Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Ribosome Synthesis in 1988 and 1991.

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