Faculty M-Z

Medical Sciences-Faculty M-Z

Division of Medical Sciences

Faculty (Last Name M-Z)

Programs

Affiliated Hospitals and Institutions

Quifu Ma PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobi­ology, DFCI (NSCI) Developmental studies of the mammalian nervous system.

Richard Maas MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, BWH (BBS) Molecular genetics of mammalian organogenesis.

Marcy MacDonald PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, MGH/E (BBS) Molecular genetic approaches to human disease mechanisms.

Jeffrey Macklis MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, MGH (NSCI) Reconstruction of complex neocortical circuitry by neural transplantation or manipulation of endog­enous neural precursors; projection neuron development.

Joseph A. Majzoub MD, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, CH (NSCI) Molecular endocrinology of the mammalian stree response.

Clint Makino PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology (Neuroscience), MEEI (NSCI) Molecular mechanisms of visual transduction, light adaptation and retinal disease.

Jarema Malicki PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology (Genetics), MEEI (NSCI) Genetic basis of cell pattern and identity in eye and ear sensory formations.

Eleftheria Maratos-Flier MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, BIDMC (NSCI) The role of the hypothalamus and particularly melanin concentrating hormone in the regulation of energy homeostasis.

Jarrod Marto PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharma­cology, DFCI (BBS) Quantitative proteomics of cancer progression.

Richard Masland PhD, Charles Anthony Pappas Professor of Neuroscience, MGH (NSCI) The study of the microcircuitry of the retina, using anatomical, electrophysiological and molecular techniques.

Diane Mathis PhD, Professor of Medicine, JDC (IMM) Autoimmune diseases; T cell biology.

John Maunsell PhD, Professor of Neurobi­ology, HMS (NSCI) How attention influences representation of sensory information in cere­bral cortex, and how these changes improve behavior performance.

Tanya Mayadas PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, BWH (BBS) Phagocyte-endothelial cell responses in inflammation.

Andrea McClatchey PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, MGH (BBS) The study of the role of the cytoskeletal:membrane interface in tumor development and progression, utilizing mouse models of cancer.

Frank McKeon PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) The structure of the nucleus and the dynamics of nuclear transport.

Markus Meister PhD, Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, HU-Camb (NSCI) Visual processing.

John Mekalanos PhD, Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, HMS (BBS) Protein chemistry and bacterial genetics; biochemistry of bacterial toxins; genetic anal­ysis of bacterial virulence.

Matthew Meyerson MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, DFCI (BBS) Biology and genetics of human cancers.

Thomas Michel MD, PhD, Professor of Medi­cine, BWH (BBS) Cardiovascular signal trans­duction.

Timothy J. Mitchison PhD, Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology, HMS (BBS) Cytoskeletal dynamics.

Danesh Moazed PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) Gene silencing and chromosome structure.

D. Branch Moody MD, Associate Professor of Medicine BWH (IMM) Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which CD1 proteins present lipid antigens to T cells.

Cynthia Morton PhD, William Lambert Rich­ardson Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, BWH (BBS) Molecular cytogenetics, uterine fibroid tumors, and hereditary deafness.

Marsha Moses PhD, Professor of Surgery, CH (BBS) Biochemical and molecular regulation of vascular growth.

Richard Mulligan PhD, Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics, CH (BBS, VIR) Development and application of mammalian gene transfer vectors. Biology of retroviruses. Study of hematopoietic stem cells. Development of viral vectors and their application toward gene therapy; biology of retroviruses. (VIR)

Karl Munger PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, BWH (VIR, BBS) Interactions of viral oncoproteins with host cell factors and their effects on the regulation of cell growth and differentiation. Human papillomaviruses (HPVs): the cause of hyperplastic skin-lesions.

Venkates Murthy MD, PhD, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular
Biology (NSCI) Synaptic transmission and plasticity; neuronal cell biology.

Anders Naar PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, MGH (BBS) Molecular mechanisms of mammalian gene regulation in normal and cancerous cells.

Lee Nadler MD, Virignia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Medicine, DFCI (IMM) Trans­lational approaches in transplantation and tumor immunity.

Cathryn R. Nagler-Anderson PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Immunology), MGH/E (BBS, IMM) Induction of cell mediated immunity and nonresponsiveness at mucosal surfaces.

Charles A. Nelson PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, CH (NSCI) Developmental cognitive neuro­science, focusing primarily on memory and face processing.

Max Nibert MD, PhD, Professor of Micro­biology and Molecular Genetics, HMS (VIR)
Reovirus structure and assembly, uncoating and entry into cells, RNA synthesis and processing, and effects on host cells.

Anne Nicholson-Weller MD, Professor of Medicine, BIDMC (IMM) Role of complement proteins in host defense and inflammation.

Carl D Novina MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, DFCI (BBS, IMM) Identify mammalian short RNAs, their cognate mRNA targets, and the factors that are involved in gene silencing.

Marjorie A. Oettinger PhD, Professor of Genetics, MGH (BBS, IMM) Molecular biology of V(D) J recombination.

Bjorn R. Olsen MD, PhD, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) Molecular and developmental biology of extracellular matrix.

Stuart H. Orkin MD, David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatric Medicine, CH (BBS) Gene regulation in hematopoietic cells and human disease.

Sandra Orsulic PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, MGH/E (BBS) Developing mouse models for human cancers.

David L. Paul PhD, Professor of Neurobi­ology, HMS (NSCI) Function and control of intercellular communication through gap junctions.

David Pellman MD, Associate Professor of Pedi­atrics, DFCI (BBS) Mechanism of mitosis.

Lizabeth A. Perkins PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery (Genetics), MGH (BBS) Prosophila, a model genetic system to study signal trans­duction.

Norbert Perrimon PhD, Professor of Genetics, HMS (BBS) Mechanisms that control cell-cell interactions and cell growth in Drosophila.

Gerald B. Pier PhD, Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), BWH (BBS) Bacterial pathogenesis, vaccine devel­opment and host epithelial cell responses to bacterial infection.

Shiv S. Pillai MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, MGH/E (IMM) B-cell develop­ment; antigen receptor and pre-antigen receptor signaling.

Martin Pollak MD, Associate Professor of Medi­cine, BWH (BBS) Kidney disease, genetics, cytoskeleton.

Kornelia Polyak MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, DFCI (BBS) Molecular basis of breast cancer initiation and progression.

Scott Loren Pomeroy MD, PhD, Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, CH (NSCI) Growth  factor regulation of neural develop­ment and oncogenesis.

William T. Pu MD, Assistant Professor of Pedi­atrics, CH (BBS) Cardiogenesis and cardiac morphogenesis.

Pere B. Puigserver PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, DFCI (BBS) Nutrient Sensing and Metabolic Transcriptional Control.

Samuel Rabkin PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery, MGH (NSCI) Herpes simplex virus vectors for gene delivery in the CNS and cancer gene therapy.

Laurel Raftery PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, MGH/E (BBS) Regulation of epithelial morphogenesis by TGF-beta family signaling.

Klaus Rajewsky MD, Fred S. Rosen Professor of Pediatrics, CBR (BBS, IMM) Use of condi­tional muta genesis in mice for the study of lymphocyte development, homeostasis, and malignacies.

Anjana Rao PhD, Professor of Pathology, CBR (BBS, IMM) Signaling and gene regulation in lymphocytes.

Tom Rapoport PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) Protein translocation into the ER.

Elio Raviola MD, PhD, Bullard Professor of Neurobiology, HMS (NSCI) Functional wiring of the rabbit retina, control of postnatal devel­opment.

Robin E. Reed PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) Mechanisms of pre-mRNA splicing in higher eukaryotes with emphasis on the structure, assembly and function of mammalian spliceosomes.

Wade G. Regehr PhD, Professor of Neuro­biology, HMS (NSCI) The investigation of the role of pre- and postsynaptic calcium dynamics in determining synaptic efficacy in spike initiation.

David Reich PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics, NRB (BBS) Applying population genetics to find disease genes.

R. Clay Reid MD, PhD, Professor of Neurobi­ology, HMS (NSCI) Electrophysiological and computational study of the mammalian visual system.

Ellis L. Reinherz MD, Professor of Medicine, DFCI (IMM) Human T- cell antigen receptor; human lymphocyte differentiation antigens.

Charles C. Richardson MD, Edward S. Wood Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS (BBS, VIR) Enzymatic and molecular mechanisms in the replication of a duplex DNA molecule.

Charles M. Roberts MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric CH (BBS) Chromatin and cancer.

Thomas M. Roberts PhD, Professor of Pathology, DFCI (BBS, VIR) Role of oncogenes in the molecular mechanisms of signal trans­duction.

Barrett Rollins MD, PhD, Professor of Medi­cine, DFCI (IMM) Control of leukocyte trafficking and the immune response by chemokines and other cytokines.

Evan Rosen MD, Assistant Professor of Medi­cine, BIDMC (BBS) Molecular approaches to metabolism and energy balance.

Vicki Rosen PhD, Professor of Developmental Biology (HSDM)(BBS) BMP signaling in musculoskeletal tissues.

Paul A. Rosenberg MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, CH (NSCI) Mechanisms of action of neurotransmitters and neuro­modulators, specifically glutamate and norepinephrine.

Fritz Roth PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS (BBS) Methods and applications in computa­tional molecular biology.

Eric J. Rubin MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) (HMS) and Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (HSPH) (BBS) Bacterial genetics of tuberculosis and tularemia.

Joan V. Ruderman PhD, Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) Control of the cell cycle.

David Rudner PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, HMS (BBS) Molecular mecha­nisms in bacterial differentiation.

Ruth Ruprecht MD, PhD, Professor of Medi­cine (VIR, IMM) Retroviral pathogenesis; host-virus interactions including virus-induced perturbation of the developing immune system; the nature of protective anti-retroviral immune responses in primates. Host-retrovirus interactions; molecular determinant of lenti­viral pathogenesis and attenuation in primates.

Gary Ruvkun PhD, Professor of Genetics, MGH (BBS) Genetic analysis of C. elegans neural signaling and neuroendocrine regulation of longevity.

Bernardo Sabatini MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, HMS (NSCI) The role of dendritic protein translation in the modifi cation of synapses.

David H. Sachs MD, Paul S. Russell/Warner Lambert Professor of Surgery, MGH/E (IMM)
Transplantation, xenotransplantation, immu­nogenetics and tolerance.

Manish Sagar MD, Assistant Professor of Medi­cine, BWH (BBS, VIR) Pathogenesis of HIV-1 transmission.

Adrian Salic PhD, Assistant Professor on Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) Mechanisms of vertebrate hedgehog signaling.

Joshua Sanes PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, HU (NSCI) Cellular and molecular studies of synapse formation in the vertebrate nervous system.

Clifford Saper MD, PhD, James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, BIDMC (NSCI)
Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of hypo­thalamic control of wake-sleep states, feeding, and immune response, as well as alterations in human neurodegenerative diseases.

David T. Scadden MD, Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine, MGH (BBS, IMM) Focus on stem cells and the stem cell niche.

Alexander F. Schier PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biolog,y HU (NSCI, MCB)
Sensory neuron development and sleep using genetics and live imaging in zebrafish.

Stuart F. Schlossman MD, Baruj Benacerraf Professor of Medicine, Emeritus (DFCI) (IMM) Immunochemical aspects of immune reac­tions.

Dietmar Schmucker PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, DFCI (NSCI) Diversity and function of the Dscam receptor.

Stuart L. Schreiber PhD, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, HU (IMM) Biological chemistry of signal transduction.

Peter H. Schur MD, Professor of Medicine, BWH (IMM) Immunoregulation and immu­nogenetics of lupus.

Thomas Schwarz PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology in the Department of Neurology, CH (BBS, NSCI) Genetics of neuronal cell biology.

Ralph Scully PhD, Assistant Professor of Medi­cine, BIDMC (BBS) We aim to understand in detail how cancer genes such as BRCA1, BRCA2, and the Bloom’s syndrome gene control recombination.

Brian Seed PhD, Professor of Genetics, MGH (BBS, IMM) Genetic analysis of signal trans­duction.

Rosalind Segal MD, PhD, Professor of Neuro­biology, DFCI (BBS, NSCI) The role of neurotrophins in cerebellar development; Neurotrophin signaling in vivo.

Christine Seidman MD, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, HMS (BBS) Molecular genetics basis of human disease, particularly cardiovascular pathogenesis.

Jonathan G. Seidman PhD, Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics, HMS (BBS) Molecular genetics of inherited heart disease.

Dennis Selkoe MD, Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, BWH (NSCI) Molecular, biochemical and cell biological studies of the pathogenetic mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related studies of beta- amyloid precursor protein and other gene products.

Charles Serhan PhD, Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia, BWH (BBS) Chemical media­tors in inflammation and resolution.

Jeffrey E. Settleman PhD, Professor of Medicine, MGH/E (BBS) Characterization of signal trans­duction pathways: how they regulate cellular proliferation and differentiation.

Arlene Sharpe MD, PhD, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, HMS (BBS, IMM) In vivo analysis of costimulation; neuroimmunology.

Jen Sheen PhD, Professor of Genetics, MGH (BBS) Elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying signal transduction pathways that mediate plant responses to central growth regulators, such as sugars, stress, and phyto­hormones.

Jie Shen PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, BWH (NSCI) Molecular biology of Alzheim­er’s disease and Parkinson’s disease using mouse genetic approaches.

Yang Shi PhD, Professor of Pathology, HMS (BBS, VIR) Transcriptional repression in eukaryotic cells; interactions between viral oncoproteins and cellular transcription machinery. Transcription in cell fate determi­nation, differentiation, and tumorogenesis.

Yujiang Shi PhD, Assistant Professor of Medi­cine, BWH (BBS) Epigenomics and chromatin systems biology.

William Shih PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharma­cology DFCI (BBS) Biomolecular nanotech­nology.

Ramesh Shivdasani MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, DFCI (BBS) Cancer and development, thrombopoiesis, intestinal devel­opment.

Steven Shoelson MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, JDC (BBS) Structural and cellular biology of insulin signal transduction, insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity.

Piotr Sicinski MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, DFCI (BBS) Cell cycle proteins in development and cancer.

Pamela A. Silver PhD, Professor of Systems Biology, HMS (BBS) Systems and synthetic biology.

David Sinclair PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, HMS (BBS) Molecular mechanisms of aging and cancer.

Pamela B. Sklar MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry (MGH) (BBS) Genetics of psychi­atric disorders.
Susan A. Slaugenhaupt PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, MGH (BBS) Genetics of Human Disease.

Scott Snapper MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MGH (BBS, IMM) Signal transduc­tion, host-microbial interactions, and immu­nology.

Joseph Sodroski MD, Professor of Pathology, DFCI (IMM,VIR) HIV envelope glycopro­teins; HIV-1 pathogenesis; HIV-1 vaccine development. Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis by human transforming and immunodeficiency viruses; immune responses to human immunodeficiency virus; viral enve­lope glycoproteins. (VIR)

Bruce M. Spiegelman PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, DFCI (BBS) Regulation of gene expression in mammalian cell differentiation; adipose cell and tissue development; nuclear hormone receptor and basic-helix-loop-helix families of transcription factors.

Timothy A. Springer PhD, Latham Family Professor of Pathology, HMS (BBS, IMM) Molecular basis of cell adhesion and migra­tion.

Michael Starnbach PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, HMS (BBS, IMM) T-lymphocyte responses to bacte­rial pathogens; subcellular compartmentaliza­tion of bacterial antigens.

Joan Stein-Streilein PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, SERI (IMM) Mechanisms used by innate immune cells in trafficking and generating immune peripheral tolerance in the secondary lymphoid organs.

Richard L. Stevens PhD, Professor of Medicine, BWH (IMM) Differentiation of mast cells.

Charles D. Stiles PhD, Professor of Micro­biology and Molecular Genetics, DFCI (BBS, NSCI) Regulation of gene expression by animal cell growth factors. Basic principles of signal transduction in nerve cells and the developing nervous system.

Gary R. Strichartz PhD, Professor of Anaesthesia (Pharmacology), BWH (NSCI) Mechanisms in the peripheral nervous system that encode both acute and chronic pain and the development of drugs to prevent or reverse pain.

Terry B. Strom MD, Professor of Medicine (BIDMC) (IMM) The fundamental nature of and the means to produce T cell tolerance to allo- and auto-antigens.

Jack Strominger MD, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, DFCI (VIR, IMM) MHC proteins, T cells and natural killer cells. Natural killer cells; autoimmunity and immu­nosurveillance; Epstein-Barr Virus.

Kevin Struhl PhD, David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS (BBS) Molecular mecha­nism of gene regulation in eukaryotic organisms.

Shamil Sunyaev PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, BWH (BBS) Computational analysis of sequence variation and divergence.

Megan Sykes MD, Harold and Ellen Danser Professor of Surgery, MGH (IMM) Transplanta­tion biology, bone marrow transplantation and tolerance to alloantigens and xenoantigens.

Jack W. Szostak PhD, Professor of Genetics, MGH (BBS) Design of an RNA replicase and other new ribozymes.

Clifford J. Tabin PhD, Professor of Genetics, HMS (BBS) Molecular basis for specifying the form and structure of a developing organism with focus on the vertebrate limb.

Rudolph Tanzi PhD, Professor of Neurology, MGH (NSCI) Identifying and characteriza­tion of genes involved in neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease and aging and Down’s syndrome.

Daniel G. Tenen MD, Professor of Medicine, BIDMC (IMM) Transcriptional regulation of stem cell and myeloid cell genes in order to understand normal myeloid differentiation and leukemia.

Cornelis Terhorst PhD, Professor of Medicine, BIDMC (IMM) T cell development, T cell signal transduction, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, T cell responses to viruses.

Sheila Thomas PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, BIDMC (BBS) Cytoskeleton in development and cancer.

Alex Toker PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, BIDMC (BBS) Signaling pathways in cancer cell biology.

Shannon J. Turley PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology DFCI (IMM) Antigen processing and presentation by dendritic cells in autoim­munity and cancer.

Naoshige Uchida PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, HU (NSCI, MCB) Neuronal mechanisms by which sensory information and memory guise the behavior of the animal.

Dale T. Umetsu MD, PhD, Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Professor of Pediatrics CH (IMM) Immunoregulatory mechanisms affecting the development of pulmonary inflammation, asthma, and allergy in mice and humans.

David Van Vactor PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS, NSCI) The molecular mechanisms that control axon guidance deci­sions in drosophila.

Marc Vidal PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics, DFCI (BBS) To generate a comprehensive protein-interaction map for C. elegans and develop new concepts to integrate this map with other functional maps such as expression profiles and global phenotypic analysis.

Ulrich Von Andrian-Werburg MD, PhD, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Immu­nopathology, HMS (BBS, IMM) The adhesion and signaling events that direct the migration of blood-borne immune cells to organized lymphoid tissue and to sites of inflammation in the mammalian body.

Harald von Boehmer MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, DFCI (IMM) Lymphocyte develop­ment, signaling, immunoregulation.

Antoine van Oijen PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Phar­macology, HMS (BBS) Utilizes and further develops novel single-molecule techniques to study problems in the fields of DNA replica­tion, searching mechanisms of DNA-binding factors, and DNA recombination pathways.

Amy Jo Wagers PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, HMS (BBS, IMM) Biology and function of tissue-specific stem cells.

Denisa Wagner PhD, Professor of Pathology, CBR (BBS, IMM) Role of leukocyte and platelet adhesion in normal physiology and in pathological processes.

Gerhard Wagner PhD, Elkan Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Phar­macology, HMS (BBS) NMR spectroscopy of proteins and metabolites.

Loren D. Walensky MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, DFCI (BBS) Targeting deregulated apoptotic and transcriptional path­ways in cancer.

Bruce D. Walker MD, Professor of Medicine, MGH (VIR) Cellular immunology of human viral infections.

Suzanne Walker Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics HMS (BBS) Chemical Biology, enzymology, antibiotics.

W. Allan Walker MD, Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics, Professsor in the Department of Nutrition in the Faculty of Public Health, MGH (IMM) Development of intestinal mucosal host defenses including oral tolerance.

Christopher A. Walsh MD, PhD, Bullard Professor of Neurology, BIDMC (NSCI, BBS) Early events in the cerebral cortical develop­ment, studies using retroviral-mediated gene transfer and molecular genetics techniques. 

Christopher T. Walsh PhD, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS (BBS) Enzymatic reaction mechanisms; study of enzymes as therapeutic targets for antibacterial, antiparasitic, immu­nosuppressive drugs.

Johannes Walter PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharma­cology, HMS (BBS) Characterization of eukary­otic replication initiation factors; Initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication: A biochemical analysis.

Thomas Walz PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (BBS) High-resolution Electron Micros­copy.

Frederick Wang MD, Professor of Medicine, BWH (VIR) Molecular biology and pathogen­esis of Epstein-Barr virus infection using an experimental model for EBV infection in Old World primates. Molecular biology and patho­genesis of EBV infection using a non-human primate model of experimental EBV infection.

Paula I. Watnick MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CH (BBS) Genetics of bacterial adhesion and pathogenesis.

Howard L. Weiner MD, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology, HIM (IMM) Autoim­munity of multiple sclerosis.

Charles J. Weitz MD, PhD, Robert Henry Pfeiffer Professor of Neurobiology, HMS (NSCI)
The molecular mechanism of the circadian clock localized in the mammalian hypothal­amus.

Peter F. Weller MD, Professor of Medicine, BIDMC (IMM) Immunobiology of eosino­phils and leukocyte activation.

Michael Wessels MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), CH
(BBS) Molecular pathogenesis of streptococcal infection.

Marianne Wessling-Resnick PhD, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, HSPH (BBS) Regula­tion of the cellular uptake of transferrin; the role of GTP-binding proteins in endocytosis; membrane transport of iron.

Sean Whelan PhD, Assistant Professor of Micro­biology (VIR, BBS) Transcriptional regulation of viral and mammalian genes; Replication of negative-sense RNA viruses.

Kristin White PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, MGH/E (BBS) Regulation and execution of apoptosis during development in
Drosophila.

Morris F. White PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, CH (BBS) Insulin receptor and mechanisms of signal transmission.

Malcolm R. Whitman PhD, Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, HSDM (BBS) Mech­anisms of mesoderm induction in vertebrates.

Rachel Wilson PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (HMS) (NSCI) Neural coding of chemosensory stimuli.

Fred M. Winston PhD, Professor of Genetics, HMS (BBS) Control of transcription in yeast.

Dyann F. Wirth PhD, Professor of Tropical Public Health, HSPH (BBS) Molecular genetic analysis of gene expression, transsplicing, and homologous recombination in Leishmania enrietti.

Michael Wolfe PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology; BWH (BBS, NSCI) Biochemistry and biology of neurodegenerative diseases.

Clifford Woolf PhD, Richard J. Kitz Professor of Anaesthesia Research, MGH (NSCI) Changes in the function, chemistry and structure of sensory nerons that contribute to pain.

Chao-ting Wu PhD, Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics), HMS (BBS) Epigenetics, homology effects, gene structure, genomics.

Kai Wucherpfennig MD, PhD,  Professor of Neurology, DFCI (IMM) Basic mechanisms of T cell mediated autoimmune diseases.

Priscilla Yang PhD, Assistant Professor of Micro­biology and Molecular Genetics HMS (BBS)
Chemistry and biology of host-virus interac­tions.

Bruce Alpert Yankner MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, HMS (NSCI, BBS) The neuro­biology and protein biochemistry of beta amyloid protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Gary Yellen PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, HMS (NSCI) Molecular physiology of neuronal ion channels through site-directed mutagenesis, chemical modification, and  biophysical analysis.

Junying Yuan PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, HMS (NSCI, BBS) The study of genes that control the determination and execution of developmental cell death in vertebrates.

Edmond J. Yunis MD, Professor of Pathology, DFCI (IMM) Genetics of the human immune response and autoimmune disease.

Bruce Zetter PhD, Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology, CH (BBS) Mecha­nisms of tumor metastasis.

Jing Zhou MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, HIM (BBS) Genetics, receptors, and ion channels.

Leonard I. Zon MD, Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, CH (BBS) Developmental biology of hematopoiesis and erythroid development.

Lee Zou PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine MGH (BBS) DNA damage responses and genomic stability.