Dr. Dowdy is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied with Dr. Eric Stanbridge. He did his postdoctoral work with Dr. Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he was an Assistant Investigator of HHMI and Assistant Professor of Pathology and Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. His research has revolved around understanding the molecular basis of G1 cell cycle progression, how it is deregulated during oncogenesis and the delivery of experimental anticancer macromolecular therapeutics through protein transduction domains. |