Prof. Ali Shilatifard
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Ali Shilatifard is an internationally recognized leader in chromatin biology, gene expression and epigenetics, and on how the misregulation of these pathways contributes to human cancer. He is the Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Shilatifard has been teaching gene expression at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for over ten years, and also serves on the scientific advisory boards of Genentech, Keystone Symposia and the Max-Planck Society.
For his pioneering work, he has won numerous honors including the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-AMGEN Award and the American Cancer Society Award of Excellence. He is the senior editor for the journal Science, deputy editor for Science Advances, editor for the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology, and serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors for eLife.