Institute Members

Core Members

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Leadership

Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D. Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology; Co-Director of Epigenetics Institute

Shelley L. Berger, Ph.D. Daniel S. Och University Professor Director, Epigenetics Institute Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor (PIK)

Gerd Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. Frank E. Weise III Professor of Pediatrics; Co-Director of Epigenetics Institute

Core Faculty

Montserrat Anguera, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

Irfan A. Asangani, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology, Assistant Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute

Ben E. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Roberto Bonasio, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

George Burslem, Ph.D.

Brian C. Capell, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Maya Capelson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Colin Conine, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics

Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D. Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer, William Wikoff Smith Professor of Medicine

Benjamin A. Garcia, Ph.D. Presidential Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Director of Quantitative Proteomics; John McCrea Dickson M.D. Presidential Professor

Roger Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Cancer Biology; Director of Basic Science, Basser Center for BRCA Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute; J. Samuel Staub, M.D. Professor

Elizabeth Heller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Eric F. Joyce, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Genetics

Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D., M.S. Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor in Genetics Director, Center of Excellence in Type 1 Diabetes Associate Director, Penn Diabetes Research Center Associate Director, Penn Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases Director, Next Generation Sequencing Center

Rahul Kohli, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry & Biophysics

Erica Korb, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Genetics

Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases; Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; Chief of Endocrinology Division, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Mia Levine, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology

Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D. George W. Raiziss Professor and Vice-Chair, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute