Tom Maniatis is a professor at Columbia University, and serves as the Scientific Director and CEO of the New York Genome Center.
15 Facts About Tom Maniatis
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Tom Maniatis carried out postdoctoral studies at Harvard University and at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
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Tom Maniatis joined the Department of Biology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena California, where his laboratory developed methods to isolate and study individual human genes.
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Tom Maniatis's laboratory contributed fundamental insights into the mechanisms of RNA transcription, RNA splicing and the regulation of gene expression.
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Tom Maniatis returned to Harvard in 1980 where he taught and continued his research.
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Tom Maniatis became the Scientific Director and CEO of the center in 2016.
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In 1979, the Tom Maniatis lab had developed and deployed gene cloning methods.
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In 1994, Tom Maniatis, Fred Goldeberg, and others from the Harvard Medical School founded ProScript.
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Tom Maniatis invented the proteasome inhibitor Velcade approved by the FDA for the treatment of Multiple Myeloma.
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Tom Maniatis has served on the board of trustees of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Jackson Laboratory, and the Rockefeller University.
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Tom Maniatis led the ALS Association's initiative TREAT ALS that combines drug discovery with priorities set for existing drug candidates, to accelerate clinical testing of compounds with promise for treating the disease.
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Tom Maniatis was a cofounder of the New York Genome Center, headed its scientific steering committee, and has served as a member of its board of directors from its founding in 2011.
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Tom Maniatis is founding director of the university-wide Columbia University Precision Medicine Initiative, which is dedicated to the application of genomic technology to the advancement of basic and medical science, directed towards the practice of precision medicine.
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Tom Maniatis has received Honorary PhD degrees from the University of Athens, the Cold Spring Harbor Graduate School of Biological Sciences, and the Rockefeller University.
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Tom Maniatis was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985, and the US National Academy of Medicine in 2012.