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Alison M. Goate

Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry

Alison Goate
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A professor of genetics in psychiatry, Alison Goate is a molecular geneticist who discovered the first genetic mutation that causes a form of Alzheimer's disease.


Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, genetics, psychiatry, genetic mutation, amyloid-beta, disease-causing mutations

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu


Paul Goodfellow

Professor of Surgery

The Goodfellow laboratory is investigating the genetic alterations that underlie development of uterine endometrial cancers. Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States. Like many cancers, uterine endometrial cancers are hormonally- responsive tumors. The genetic ...


Expertise: Cancer genetics, cancer, DNA, genetics, gene expression

Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu


David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D.

Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology

Gutmann is the founder and director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinical Program, which is dedicated to treating the common inherited tumor predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis (NF). Individuals with NF have an increased risk of developing brain tumors and other cancers. As national leader in the ...


Expertise: Brain tumors, cancer genetics, neurofibromatosis, molecular genetics, neurosciences, neurology

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu


Howard McLeod

director of the pharmacology core at the Siteman Cancer Center

There is a high degree of variation in patient response to medicines. The McLeod laboratory uses genetic tools to perform in vitro, ex vivo, and clinical evaluations to discover, validate, and apply molecular predictors of therapeutic outcome. This includes candidate gene and genome-wide human association ...


Expertise: pharmacogenetics, pharmacology, translational research, tumor markers, chemotherapy

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Alan Templeton

Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences

Alan Templeton
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Templeton applies molecular genetic techniques and statistical population genetics to a variety of problems in evolutionary and conservation biology. He explores natural selection in various species, genetic variability, the role of lipid metabolic genes in coronary artery disease in humans, and the ...


Expertise: evolution of HIV, evolutionary and conservation biology, genetic variability, lipid metabolic genes, molecular genetics, natural selection

Direct contact: (314) 935-6868 / temple_a@biology.wustl.edu


Richard Wilson

Director, Genome Sequencing Center

Under the leadership of Richard Wilson and other experts, the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) has become an internationally renowned center for innovative high-speed sequencing of genetic material. Researchers at the GSC produced the initial analyses of more than 20 percent of the human genome and were ...


Expertise: Large-scale genome sequencing and analysis, gene sequencing, chromosome, Human Genome Project

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu



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Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004


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