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Lourdes Aleman, Ph.D.
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
MIT
http://oeit.mit.edu/about/staff/lourdes-aleman
Graduate Student:2004-2008
Thesis - Exploring the specificity and mechanisms of siRNA-mediated gene silencing in mammalian cells

Albert  Baldwin, Ph.D
Professor
UNC Lineberger Cancer Research Center
http://www.unclineberger.org/research/faculty/searchbyname.asp?ID=5
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1989

Göran  Baurén, Ph.D.
Global Genomics AB
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999

Susan M.Berget, Ph.D.
Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.bcm.edu/pharmacology/be-s.htm
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1975-1978

Arnold J. Berk, M.D.
Professor,
University of California, Los Angeles
https://www.uclaaccess.ucla.edu:443/Faculty.aspx?rv_FacultyId=5
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1976-1979

Kathleen Berkner, Ph.D.
Associate Staff
The Lerner Research Institute
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
http://www.lerner.ccf.org/moleccard/berkner/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1983

Minou Bina, Ph.D.
Professor
Purdue University
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/bina/
Sabbatical: 1988

Douglas L. Black, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Investigator, HHMI
UCLA
http://www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/black/index.html
Visiting Fellow: 9/92-10/92
HHMI Investigator

Benjamin Blencowe, Ph.D. 
Professor
University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/intron/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1992-1998

Myles Brown, M.D. 
Chief, Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Professor of Medicine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and HMS
http://research.dfci.harvard.edu/brownlab/lab_members/myles_brown.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990

Steve Buratowski, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard Medical School
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/buratowski.html
Graduate Student: 1985-1990
Thesis - Transcription initiation by RNA Polymerase II (March 1990)

Chris Burge, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/burge.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999

Mauro Calabrese, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences Program
Cancer Genetics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Terry Magnuson, advisor
http://genetics.unc.edu/faculty/magnuson
Graduate Student: 2002-2008
Thesis - Dicer delection and short RNA expression analysis in mouse embryonic stem cells (February 2008)

Cindy  Carr, Ph.D.  Graduate Student:1986-1992
Thesis - Cloning and characterization of TFEB: A member of the helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper family (June 1992) 

Rich Carthew, Ph.D.
Professor
Northwestern University
http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/carthew/
Graduate Student: 1982-1987
Thesis - Characterization of human class II transcription factors (September 1987)

Karen  Cepek, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Fellow:1995-1997

Connie Cepko, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard Medical School
http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/~cepko/
Graduate Student:  1977-1982
HHMI Investigator, National Academy of Sciences
Thesis - Interaction of the Adenovirus 100K and Hexon proteins: Analysis using monoclonal antibodies and temperature-sensitive mutants (February 1982)

David Chang, Ph.D., M.D.
Amgen, Inc.
http://www.biospace.com/company_profile.aspx?CompanyId=1277
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1990

Daniel Chasman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/preventivemedicine/Faculty/Chasman.aspx
 Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1997

Chonghui Cheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/igp/facindex/ChengC.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2007

Lewis A. Chodosh, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/endocrin/faculty/chodosh.html
Graduate Student: 1983-1988
Thesis - MLTF: A human promoter-specific transcription factor (April 1988)

Gilbert Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Stanford University
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~chu/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1981-1982

Roger Clerc, Ph.D. 
CNS Research Laboratories
Roche Ltd.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990

Richard Condit, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Florida
http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/rcondit.htm
 Sabbatical: 1987

John Crispino, Ph.D.  
Northwestern University
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/igp/facindex/CrispinoJ.html
Graduate Student: 1992-1996
Thesis - The role of U1 snRNP in pre-mRNA splicing (February 1996)

John G. Doench, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Ed Harlow, advisor
http://www.hip.harvard.edu/staff.html
Graduate Student: 2001-2005
Thesis - Specificity and mechanism of microRNAs in the regulation of gene expression (June 2005)

Daniel J. Donoghue,Ph.D.
Professor
University of California San Diego
http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/research/profile.cfm?cid=C00452
Graduate Student: 1974-1979
Thesis - Electron microscopic studies of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus and related retroviruses: Spliced subgenomic mRNAs and genome structure (April 1979)

Derek Dykxhoorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami Institute for Human Genomics
http://medgen.med.miami.edu/x271.xml
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1998-2003

Stefan Erkeland
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2007
Assistant Professor
Erasmus MC
Hematology Department
http://www.erasmusmc.nl/47396/51019/372630/2095087/cvsteferk?lang=nl
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2007

William Fairbrother, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Brown University
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/William_Fairbrother
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2001-2005

Andrew Fire, Ph.D. 
Professor  
Stanford University School of Medicine
http://genome-www.stanford.edu/group/fire/
Graduate Student: 1978-1983
2006 co-Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
National Academy of Sciences
Thesis - In vitro transcription studies of Adenovirus (June 1983)

David E. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://research4.dfci.harvard.edu/fisherlab/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1993

S. Jane Flint, Ph.D.
Professor
Princeton University
http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=208
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1973-1975

Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Duke University Medical Center
http://mgm.duke.edu/faculty/garcia/lab/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990

Cathie Garnis, Ph.D. 
BC Cancer Research Centre
http://www.bccrc.ca/cg/people_cagarnis.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2008

Hara Ghosh, Ph.D. 
McMaster University
http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/biochem/people/faculty/profile.php?jumpMenu=23
Sabbatical: 1984

Anna Gil, Ph.D., LLD Postdoctoral Fellow: 1986-1992

Sandra Gilbert, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago
Graduate Student: 1993-1999
Thesis - Chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome (September 1999)

Paula Grabowski, Ph.D.
Professor and HHMI Investigator
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~biohome/Dept/Frame/Faculty/grabowski.htm
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1983-1987
HHMI Investigator

Martin Griot, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1989 (shared with BPEC)

Alla Grishok
Assistant Professor
Columbia University

http://cumc.columbia.edu/dept/gsas/biochem/faculty/grishok.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2001-2007

Hiroshi Handa, Ph.D./M.D.
Professor & 21st COE Program Leader
Tokyo Insititute of Technology
http://www.handa.bio.titech.ac.jp
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1978-1980

Ulla Hansen, Ph.D.
Professor
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/biology/people/faculty/hansen/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1983

Steve Hardy, M.S., Ph.D.
Chiron
Graduate Student (MS): 1981-1983

Sean Harper, M.D.
Vice President, Development
Amgen, Inc.
http://www.biospace.com/company_profile.aspx?CompanyId=1277
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1996

Tim J Harrison DSc FRCPath
Reader in Molecular Virology
Royal Free and University College Medical School
London W1N 4JF UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/virology-bloomsbury/staff-details/biographies/Tim%20Harrison.htm
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1976-1978

Mia Horowitz, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Tel Aviv
http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/cell_r/members/horowitz/horowitz.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1982

Hristo Houbaviy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine
http://profiles.umdnj.edu/forms/View_Profile.cfm?OProfID=houbavhr
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1999-2005

Parmjit Jat, Ph.D. 
Professor
University College London
London, UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/neuroscience/Page.php?ID=12&ResearcherID=275
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1983-1987

Grace Jones, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Kentucky
Sabbatical: 1997
http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/Biology/Biology/faculty_research/faculty/jones/

Randal Kaufman, Ph.D.
Professor, HHMI Investigator
University of Michigan Medical School
http://www.biochem.med.umich.edu/?q=rkaufman
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1979-1982
HHMI Investigator

Gabriel Kaufman, Ph.D. 
Professor
University of Tel Aviv,
http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/biochem/members/kaufman/kaufman.html

Sabbatical: 1990

Jaesang Kim, Ph.D.
Professor
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, 120-750, Korea
http://www.ewha.ac.kr/english/

Graduate Student: 1990-1996

Thesis - Isolation and functional characterization of cofactors of RNA Polymerase II transcription (June 1996)

Jae Bum Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Seoul National University NS70
Seoul, Korea. 151-742
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1996-2000

Robert E. Kingston, Ph.D.
Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital and HMS
http://xanadu.mgh.harvard.edu/kingstonweb/default.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1982-1984

Jorgen Kjems, PhD
Professor
University of Aarhus
Denmark
http://www.rnai.dk/index.php/home.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1992

Tsuoshi Kobayashi, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan
Visiting Scientist: 1986-1988

Magda Konarska, Ph.D.
Professor and Head of Laboratory
The Rockefeller University
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/konarska/konarska-lab.php
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1990

Thomas M. Kristie, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/aboutlabs/lvd/molecularGeneticsSection/kristie.htm
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1993

Angus I. Lamond, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland UK
http://www.lamondlab.com/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987

Frank  Laski
Associate Professor
UCLA
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=1277
Graduate Student: 1978-1983
Thesis - Construction and function of nonsense suppressors in mammalian cells (September 1983)

Jonathan LeBowitz, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President
Symbiontics, Inc., St. Louis

Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1989

Ken LeClair, Ph.D. 
Unit Head Protein Science & Design
Novartis Biologics
http://www.novartis.com/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1991

Keng Boon Lee, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow:  1999-2003

Frank Lee, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Dragonfly Sciences
https://www.dragonflysci.com/management.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1977-1979

Ihor Lemischka, Ph.D. 
Professor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
http://www.mountsinai.org/Find%20A%20Faculty/profile.do?id=0000072500003514002971
Graduate Student: 1977-1982
Thesis - The structure and evolution of rat alpha-tubulin genes: the old and new (1982)

Lee Lim, Ph.D. 
Senior Research Biologist
Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle
Graduate Student: 1994-2001
Thesis - Short and alternative: Computational and experimental analysis of slicing signals (June 2001)

Andrew M. MacMillan, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Alberta
Canada
http://www.biochem.ualberta.ca/Biochem/Faculty/MacMillan/MacPage/index.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1993-1996

James Manley, Ph.D.
Professor 
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty/manley/

Visiting Postdoc Fellow: 1981
(Gefter lab)

Robert Marciniak, Ph.D./M.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center
http://www.uthscsa.edu/csb/faculty/camarciniak.asp
http://profiles.uthscsa.edu/?pid=profile&hscid=000034499&searchBut=Search&dfilt=0T50UNTVD
Graduate Student: 1984-1991
Thesis - Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Tat protein: A eukaryotic processivity factor (April 1991)

Michael T. McManus, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UCSF
http://www.ucsf.edu/bms/faculty/mcmanus.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2004

Jan Mester, Ph.D.
INSERM, Paris
Sabbatical: 1980

Rachel Meyers, Ph.D.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Graduate Student: 1988-1993
Thesis - TATA binding protein and associated factors in mammalian transcrption: Characterization of the B-TFIID activity (December 1993)

Akira Mitsui, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan
Visiting Scientist: 1996-1998

Claire Moore, Ph.D.
Professor
Tufts University
http://www.tufts.edu/sackler/microbiology/faculty/moore/index.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1983-1987

Melissa J. Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and HHMI Investigator
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
http://www.umassmed.edu/bmp/moore.cfm
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1994
HHMI Investigator

Marsha  Morton, Ph.D.
Patent Lawyer
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1992

Richard Mulligan, Ph.D.
Professor
HMS, Children’s Hospital
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/mulligan.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1981
(Baltimore&Sharp)

Masahiro Murata, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan
Visiting Scientist: 1988-1990

Michael Murray M.D.
Instructor
Brigham and Women's Division of Genetics
http://www.hpcgg.org/Faculty/murray.jsp
Postdoctoral Fellow: 

Joel R. Neilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.bcm.edu/physio/neilson/?pmid=12572
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2004-2009

Carl D. Novina, PhD/MD
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
http://research.dfci.harvard.edu/rnai/contact.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2004

Richard A. Padgett, Ph.D.                                                 Associate Staff
Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
http://www.lerner.ccf.org/molgen/padgett/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1981-1985

Patrick S. Page-McCaw, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.rpiscrews.us/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/page-mccaw-p.html
Graduate Student: 1989-1998
Thesis - Recognition of the pyrimidine-tract of the pre-mRNA by U2AF and a novel splicing factor PUF60 (June 1998)

Barbara Panning
Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco
http://tetrad.ucsf.edu/faculty.php?ID=142
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999

Jeffrey Parvin, M.D.
Louis Levy Professor for Cancer
The Ohio State University Medical Center
http://bmi.osu.edu/people_detail.php?id=765
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1995

Christian P. Petersen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Whitehead Institute, MIT
Peter Reddien, advisor
http://inside.wi.mit.edu/reddien/pub/PWR_website/Rddn_home.html
Graduate Student: 2001-2005
Thesis - Translational regulation by short RNAs in mammalian cells (February 2006)

Joel Pomerantz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
http://biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu/members/pomerantz.htm
Graduate Student: 1991-1995
Thesis - Functional specificity and design of transcription factors: The Oct-1 homeodomain (August 1995)

David Potter, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Cancer Center
http://www.cancer.umn.edu/research/profiles/potter.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1992

Rock Pulak, Ph.D.                                                            Director of Life Sciences
Union Biometrica, Inc.
http://www.unionbiometrica.com/about/index.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1998

Charles C. Query, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
http://www.aecom.yu.edu/cellbiology/lab/Query/
http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/faculty/profile.asp?id=6996
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1996

Mark  Samuels, Ph.D.
Associte Professor of Medicine
Université de Montréal
Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center
http://www.recherche-sainte-justine.qc.ca/en/chercheurs/213
Graduate Student: 1979-1985
Thesis - Biochemical studies of transcription by RNA Polymerase II (April 1985)

Rebecca Scarr, Ph.D.
(intellectual property law)
http://www.michaelbest.com/rbscarr/
Graduate Student: 1995-2001
Thesis - Beyond HSV: Investigating the role of Host Cell Factor 1 (C1) in mammalian cells (February 2001)

Lowell Schnipper, M.D.
Beth Israel Deacones Medical Center
http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/profile/member/1358/0/
Sabbatical: 1986

John M. Sedivy, Ph.D.
Professor
Brown University
http://biomed.brown.edu/Faculty/S/SedivyJ.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1988

Sharon Seiler, Ph.D.
Licensing Associate - Office of Industrial Affairs
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/85132.cfm
Graduate Student: 1983-1989
Thesis - Probing the molecular architecture of the messenger RNA splicing reaction in vitro (June 1989)

David Shapiro, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/biochem/f_shapiro.html

Sabbatical: 1985

Ben Shykind, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/neurobeh/axel/personal/Ben_Shykind.html
Graduate Student: 1988-1996
Thesis - Chromosomal proteins in activation of transcription (February 1996)

Harinder  Singh, Ph.D.
Professor and HHMI Investigator
University of Chicago
http://biomed.bsd.uchicago.edu/common/faculty/singh.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1989
HHMI Investigator

Arnold Simons, Ph.D. Sabbatical: 1997
(deceased in 2005)

Hagit (Skolnik) David, Ph.D.
Scientific Review Administrator 
NIAID Scientific Review Program
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1986

Matthew Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH Cancer Center
(Practicing Physician)
http://www2.massgeneral.org/cancer/locator/search_clinician.asp?id=241
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1997

Hong Tang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
http://sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_ibp_cas/en/eibpexport/200904/t20090403_45239.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-2000

Dean Tantin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Utah, Salt Lake
http://www.path.utah.edu/labs/tantin/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1998-2006

Marc Timmers, Ph.D.
Professor 
University Medical Center-Utrecht
http://ruummc.med.uu.nl/research/txpn.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1991

Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Rockefeller University
http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/abteilungen/100/105/index.html
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyfoundation/winners_past.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1999
HHMI Investigator

Anders Virtanen, Ph.D.
Professor 
Uppsala University
http://www.icm.uu.se/about.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987

Vicki Wang, Ph.D.
MD student at HMS
Graduate Student:  1997-2003
Thesis - Old protein, new perspective: The role of Oct-1 during embryonic development and lymphopoiesis (May 2003)

Judah Weinberger, M.D.  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987

Amy White (Seila), Ph.D. 
Research Scientist
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2004-2009

Qiang Zhou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/zhouq.html
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1993-1995

 

OUR INVALUABLE TECHNICAL STAFF OVER THE YEARS:

Janice  Haverty (1976)

Claire  Moore (1977)

Barbara  Aufiero (1979)

Scott  Schroeder (1980)

Paul  Changelian (1981)

Lyn  Spencer (1981)

Lynne  Corboy (1982)

Mary  Esteve (1985)

Mary  Riggs (1985)

Elizabeth  Hansen (1986)

Ursula  Ryder (1986)

Margaret  Auger (1987)

Sharon  Jaminson (1987)

Robert  Mulrenin (1988)

Lana  Parent (1990)

Robbyn  Issner (1992)

Yubin Qiu (1993)

Margaret  Beddall (1995)

Erica  Reifenberg (1997)

Janette  Knowlton (2001)

Helen Cargill (1999)

 

 

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