Principal Investigator
Frank Slack, PhD
Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt Professor of Medical Research
Harvard Medical School
Director of the Harvard Initiative for RNA Medicine
Director of the Cancer Research Institute for RNA Medicine
Departments of Pathology and Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Email: fslack@bidmc.harvard.edu
Dr. Frank received his BSc from the University of Cape Town in South Africa before completing his PhD in molecular biology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He began work on microRNAs as a postdoctoral fellow in Gary Ruvkun’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School, where he co-discovered the second known microRNA, let-7.