Prof. Randal Kaufman University of Michigan, USA

Randal Kaufman is Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School and a Howard Hughes Investigator. He received his BA in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado and his PhD in pharmacology from Stanford University. He was a Helen Hay Whitney fellow with... read morePhillip Sharp at the Center for Cancer Research at MIT. Before moving to the University of Michigan, Dr. Kaufman was Director of Molecular and Cellular Genetics at Genetics Institute Inc. His research is aimed at elucidating fundamental mechanisms that regulate protein folding and the cellular responses to the accumulation of unfolded protein within the ER.