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Gerald Francis "Jerry" Joyce (born 1956) is an American physician who is the president and a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and was previously the director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. He is best known for his work on in vitro evolution, for the discovery of the first DNA enzyme (deoxyribozyme), for his work in discovering potential RNA world ribozymes, and more in general for his work on the origin of life.Wilson da Silva, "Life-like evolution in a test tube" , Cosmos Magazine Online “Salk Institute names Gerald Joyce senior vice president and chief science officer”
Joyce decided to pursue both medical and doctoral degrees, so that his future did not hinge on a successful career as a Darwinian engineer. As of 2022, Joyce says he still keeps his medical license up-to-date, despite working primarily as a researcher at Salk Institute.
Between graduating with his M.D. and Ph.D. in 1984 and launching his own research program in 1989, Joyce married his wife, psychiatrist Nancy McTigue, in the Salk Institute courtyard.
He was a professor at The Scripps Research Institute until 2017 and served as their dean of the faculty from 2006 to 2011,"Joyce, Gerald" in VIVO during which time he was instrumental in founding a second campus in Jupiter, Florida."Welcome to Jupiter, Scripps Florida" pamphlet Joyce has served as the chair of the JASON advisory group, which he joined in 1996. Joyce also served as the institute director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. In 2017, Joyce returned to the Salk Institute as a professor, where he then became chief science officer in 2022 and president in 2023.
In 2009, Joyce's lab was the first to produce a self-replicating in vitro system, capable of exponential growth and continuing evolution, composed entirely of RNA enzymes.
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