Todd Golub
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Todd R. Golub is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a founding member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is a world leader in applying genomic tools (such as DNA microarrays) to cancer research, having made important discoveries in the molecular basis of childhood leukemia.
He graduated from New Trier High School in 1981 and then received his B.A. in 1985 from Carleton College and M.D. in 1989 from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine.
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[edit] Awards
- Discover Magazine's Inventor of the Year (Health Category), 2000
- Daland Prize of the American Philosophical Society, 2001
- Cornelius Rhoads Memorial Prize, American Association for Cancer Research, 2002
[edit] Selected publications
Du J, Widlund HR, Horstmann MA, Ramaswamy S, Ross K, Huber WE, Nishimura EK, Golub TR, Fisher DE. The critical role of CDK2 on melanoma growth and its transcriptional regulation by MITF in the melanocyte lineage: implications for melanoma therapy. Cancer Cell 2005;6:565-76.
Sweet-Cordero A, Mukherjee S, Subramanian A, You H, Roix J, Ladd C, Golub TR, Jacks T. An oncogenic KRAS2 expression signature identified by cross-species gene-expression analysis. Nat Genet 2005;37:48-55.
Stegmaier K, Ross KN, Colavito SA, O'Malley S, Stockwell BR, Golub TR. Gene expression-based high-throughput screening (GE-HTS) and application to leukemia differentiation. Nat Genet 2004;36:257-63.
