He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Johns Hopkins University.Before joining the Salk Institute in 1994, Gage was a professor of neuroscience at U.C.S.D.

• 1976年他从美国约翰霍普金斯大学取得博士学位，1994年加入沙克研究院之前，他是加州大学圣地牙哥分校的神经科学教授。