Gadd45 Stress Sensor Genes

Dan Liebermann received a PhD degree in cancer genetics at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel.  His postdoctoral training was at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1980-1985).  He started his independent research career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. He moved to Temple University School of Medicine in 1993, where he is currently a Professor of Cancer and Cellular Biology and the Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The central theme of his research program has been elucidating the molecular mechanisms that govern normal cell development and carcinogenesis, notably blood cell development, inflammation, leukemogenesis, and breast carcinogenesis. He has made major contributions in the area of hematopoietic cell differentiation, identifying and characterizing myeloid differentiation (MyD) primary response genes, which play important roles in terminal differentiation of hematopoietic cells. He has made discoveries of several novel genes, including the GADD45 family of stress response genes.