Joe Pearlberg received his undergraduate degree from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. Joe was an intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital and then did his fellowship training in oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition, he did his graduate studies in the laboratory of Mark Ptashne at Harvard Univeristy, where he received a PhD in molecular biology. He is currently in the laboratory of Ed Harlow.