Carnegie Institution for Science
Grossman received his undergraduate degree in Biology with Honors, from Brooklyn College (1973), and his Ph.D. in 1978 from Indiana University. From 1978-1982 he was a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University, Department of Cell Biology with Nam-Hai Chua and joined the Department of Plant Biology of the Carnegie Institution for Science as a Staff Scientist in 1982.