TPCB Faculty
Stewart Shuman, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Education
MD, 1983, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
PhD, 1983, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
BA, 1976, Wesleyan University
Research Topics
- Bioactive Small Molecules
- High-throughput screening assays
- Macromolecular Structure and Function
- Enzymology
- X-ray crystallography
Therapeutic Areas
- Microbiology
The Shuman lab is taking a biochemical approach to four problems in nucleic acid metabolism: the coordination of eukaryotic mRNA synthesis and processing, the structure and function of eukaryotic type I DNA topoisomerases, DNA damage recognition and repair by DNA ligases, and the mechanisms and biological roles of RNA repair enzymes.
Read more about Prof. Shuman’s research on the Sloan Kettering website