Mikhail G Kolonin
Director
University of Texas
USA
Biography
Mikhail G Kolonin is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases at the University of Texas in Houston. As a PhD from Wayne State University, he pioneered the concept of expressing peptides disrupting protein interactions in animals. As a Postdoctoral fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center, he screened combinatorial libraries to identify druggable cell surface markers. Based on this approach, he has invented experimental therapeutics for obesity and cancer. He is an Author of over 60 publications, and has editorial positions with Molecular Carcinogenesis and Cancer Research. He is endowed with a Distinguished University Chair in Metabolic Disease Research.
Research Interest
He has invented experimental therapeutics for obesity and cancer. He is an Author of over 60 publications, and has editorial positions with Molecular Carcinogenesis and Cancer Research. He is endowed with a Distinguished University Chair in Metabolic Disease Research.