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Danesh Moazed
Education University of California at Santa Cruz (PhD)
Alma mater University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California at San Francisco
Known for RNAi-mediated heterochromain establishment, epigenetic inheritance
Scientific career
Fields Epigenetics, chromatin, non-coding RNA
Institutions Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Thesis Interaction of 16S and 23S ribosomal RNA with functional ligands, implications for the mechanism of protein synthesis (1989)
Doctoral advisor Harry Noller
Website moazed.med.harvard.edu

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 from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He continued his doctoral study at the University of California at Santa Cruz with Dr. Harry Noller on the function and structure of ribosomal RNA. [1] He did his post-doctoral research at UCSF with Dr. Patrick H. O'Farrell and Dr. Sandy Johnson. [1] In 1998, Dr. Danesh 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

  1. ^ a b c d "Faculty Profile - Danesh Moazed". Harvard Medical School. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Danesh Moazed". Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "HHMI Investigator - Danesh Moazed". HHMI. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Four from HMS Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
  6. ^ "Danesh Sabi Moazed". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  7. ^ "2023 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-05-02.