Weill Cornell Medical College The Rockefeller University Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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TPCB Faculty

Nikola Pavletich, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Education

PhD, 1991, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

BS, 1988, California Institute of Technology

Awards

HHMI Investigator

Member, National Academy of Science

Research Topics

  • Macromolecular Structure and Function
    • Enzymology
    • X-ray crystallography

Therapeutic Areas

  • Cancer

photoThe Pavletich lab is interested in the structural biology of pathways that are altered in cancer, with particular emphasis on pathways that control the growth and proliferation of the cell. In cancer, mutations and other alterations in these pathways lead to the uncoupling of cell growth from growth-regulatory signals and contribute to the unrestricted proliferation of the tumor cell.

Read more about Prof. Pavletich’s research on the Sloan Kettering website

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