Carlo Croce, MD, Chair
This Department was reorganized in 2004 with Carlo Croce, MD, as chair. Nearly 70 percent of its faculty is housed in Ohio State’s new Biomedical Research Tower, while others occupy the Tzagournis Medical Research Facility, Wiseman Hall and Graves Hall. The Department consists of 33 tenure-track faculty and 11 research-track faculty. More than 65 percent of its investigators garner multiple independent research funds, over 70 percent of which are R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health. Researchers in this Department study molecular genetics of human disease and disease-causing organisms. They are closely aligned with Ohio State’s Human Cancer Genetics Program, for which Croce serves as director.
Ongoing Research Programs Researcher expertise in this Department ranges from basic
biophysical analysis to clinical translation in:
- Molecular Genetics of Cancer – Samir Acharya, PhD; Carlo Croce, MD; Albert de la Chapelle, MD, PhD; Matthew During, MD, PhD; Richard Fishel, PhD; Joanna Groden, PhD; Denis Guttridge, PhD; Tim Huang, PhD; Kay Huebner, PhD; Kimberly Kelly, PhD; Gustavo Leone, PhD; Michael Ostrowski, PhD; Yuri Pekarski, PhD; Danilo Perrotti, MD,
PhD; Amanda Toland, PhD
- DNA Repair and Genomic Stability – Samir Acharya, PhD; Richard Fishel, PhD; Joanna Groden, PhD; Kay Huebner, PhD; Deborah Parris, PhD; Christoph Schmutte, PhD;
Marshal Williams, PhD
- Immunology and Immunogenetics – Carlo Croce, MD; Ronald Glaser, PhD; Jonathon Godbout, PhD; Kay Huebner, PhD; Tim Huang, PhD; James Lang, PhD; Danilo Perrotti,
MD, PhD; Phillip Popovich, PhD; Virginia Sanders, PhD; Caroline Whitacre, PhD
- Bacterial and Viral Pathogenesis – Richard Fishel, PhD; Louise Fong, PhD; John Gunn, PhD; John Hughes, PhD; Deborah Parris, PhD; William Lafuse, PhD; James Shaw, PhD
Research Accomplishments of 2007
- Carlo Croce, MD, Kay Huebner, PhD, and Albert de la Chapelle, MD, PhD, further identified microRNAs as causative for solid and hematopoietic tumors.
- Richard Fishel, PhD, discovered additional DNA repair-based cellular mechanisms for defense against retroviral infection.
- Tim Huang, PhD, and Ramana Davuluri, PhD, continued devising combined bioinformatics methods for systemsbiology analysis.
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