Peter Tishler

Who is Peter Tishler?

Peter Verveer Tishler M.D. is a researcher in human genetics and orphan diseases, educator, and clinician especially in the areas of genetic diseases, including polycystic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Fabry disease, and the porphyrias.

Tishler was raised in New Jersey. His father, Max Tishler, was a senior research chemist and later president of Merck. Tishler attended public schools and Harvard College where he majored in Biochemical Sciences. He wrote his senior thesis on carboxypeptidase, in the lab of Dr. C.J. Fu at the Jimmy Fund, graduating cum laude in 1959.