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Robert Darnell is an American neuro-oncologist and neuroscientist who is the President and Scientific Director of the New York Genome Center, Professor at The Rockefeller University,〔(The Darnell Laboratory at Rockefeller University )〕 and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research into rare autoimmune brain diseases led to the invention of the HITS-CLIP method to study RNA regulation, and he is developing new ways to explore the regulatory portions—known as the “dark matter”—of the human genome.〔(Bits of Mystery DNA, Far From 'Junk,' Play Crucial Role, NY Times, 2012 )〕 At The Rockefeller University Darnell is the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology, Head of Laboratory, and Senior Attending Physician, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute he is has been an Investigator since 1992,〔(Robert B. Darnell, Investigator at HHMI )〕 a Senior Physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital, and an Adjunct Attending Neuro-Oncologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was named to the New York Genome Center position on November 28, 2012.〔(Physician Scientist Robert Darnell Named President and Scientific Director of New York Genome Center )〕 His research is concentrated on paraneoplastic syndromes (PNDs, the Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders), disorders touching on various clinical and basic aspects of biology including Cancer immunology, Neuroimmunology, and RNA-binding proteins. His laboratory cloned and characterized the neuron-specific splicing factors Nova1 and Nova2, and developed the HITS-CLIP technique that is used to map the sites of regulatory interactions between RNA binding proteins and their target RNA sequences. He received his undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry in 1979 from Columbia University, and his MD/PhD in Molecular Biology in 1985 from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the AAAS (the American Association for the Advancement of Science), and in 2014 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Darnell comes from a family of scientists; he is the son of American scientist James E. Darnell, another pioneer in RNA research, the father of Alicia Darnell, second place winner in the 2007 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology,〔(Girls Make History by Sweeping Top Honors at a Science Contest, NY Times, 2007 )〕 as well as the father to Paul Darnell, undergraduate philosophy student at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is married to Jennifer Darnell, a leading authority on the Fragile X syndrome.〔(Jennifer Darnell, Rockefeller University Research Associate Professor )〕 == Awards == * 1996 Irma T. Hirschl Trust Career Scientist Award * 1998 American Neurological Association Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award 〔(Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award )〕 * 2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research 〔(Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research )〕 * 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 〔(AAAS Members Elected as Fellows in 2010 )〕 * 2010 Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences 〔(IOM Elects 65 New Members )〕 * 2010 Member of the Association of American Physicians * 2012 National Institutes of Health Director's Transformative Research Award 〔(2012 Transformative R01 Award Recipients )〕 * 2014 Member of the National Academy of Sciences〔(National Academy of Sciences Announces 84 New Members, April 29, 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert B. Darnell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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