Gerald Edelman was the Assistant (later Associate) Dean of Graduate Studies Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he moved to California and began research into the regulation of primary cellular processes.
In 1992, he moved to California and became a professor of neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute. For this work, Edelman and Porter shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972. After his Nobel prize award, Edelman began research into the regulation of primary cellular processes, particularly the control of cell growth and the development of multi-celled organisms, focussing on cell-to-cell interactions in early embryonic development and in the formation and function of the nervous system. 
