Danesh Moazed
Danesh Moazed is a Professor of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[1] He is known for unveiling the mechanism of the RNAi-mediated heterochromatin establishment. His lab currently works on chromatin biology and epigenetic inheritance.[2][3]
Moazed received an undergraduate degree and doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a doctoral student, he worked with Dr. Harry F. Noller, investigating the structure and function of ribosomal RNA.[1] He did postdoctoral research at University of California, San Francisco with Dr. Patrick H. O'Farrell and Dr. Sandy Johnson.[1] In 1998, Moazed joined the faculty at the Harvard Medical School[1] and became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2008.[4] In 2019, he was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5][6] In 2023, the National Academy of Sciences elected Moazed as a member of the Academy.[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Faculty Profile - Danesh Moazed". Harvard Medical School. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "Danesh Moazed". Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ Holoch D, Moazed D (2015). "RNA-mediated epigenetic regulation of gene expression". Nature Reviews Genetics. 16 (2): 71–84. doi:10.1038/nrg3863. PMC 4376354. PMID 25554358.
- ↑ "HHMI Investigator - Danesh Moazed". HHMI. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "Four from HMS Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
- ↑ "Danesh Sabi Moazed". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ↑ "2023 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-02.