Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Robert Darnell is an American neuro-oncologist and neuroscientist who is the President and Scientific Director of the New York Genome Center. His research into rare autoimmune brain diseases led to the invention of the HITS-CLIP method to study RNA regulation, and he is developing new ways to explore the regulatory portions—known as the “dark matter”—of the human genome.Darnell is also the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at the Rockefeller University, a Principal Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Senior Physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital, and an Adjunct Attending Neuro-Oncologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was named to the New York Genome Center position on November 28, 2012.His research is concentrated on paraneoplastic syndromes (PNDs, the Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders), disorders touching on various clinical and basic aspects of biology including Cancer immunology, Neuroimmunology, and RNA-binding proteins. His laboratory cloned and characterized the neuron-specific splicing factors Nova1 and Nova2, and developed the HITS-CLIP technique that is used to map the sites of regulatory interactions between RNA binding proteins and their target RNA sequences.He received his undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry in 1979 from Columbia University, and his MD/PhD in Molecular Biology in 1985 from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS (the American Association for the Advancement of Science).He is the son of American scientist James E. Darnell, another pioneer in RNA research.. }
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- Robert_B._Darnell abstract "Robert Darnell is an American neuro-oncologist and neuroscientist who is the President and Scientific Director of the New York Genome Center. His research into rare autoimmune brain diseases led to the invention of the HITS-CLIP method to study RNA regulation, and he is developing new ways to explore the regulatory portions—known as the “dark matter”—of the human genome.Darnell is also the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at the Rockefeller University, a Principal Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Senior Physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital, and an Adjunct Attending Neuro-Oncologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was named to the New York Genome Center position on November 28, 2012.His research is concentrated on paraneoplastic syndromes (PNDs, the Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders), disorders touching on various clinical and basic aspects of biology including Cancer immunology, Neuroimmunology, and RNA-binding proteins. His laboratory cloned and characterized the neuron-specific splicing factors Nova1 and Nova2, and developed the HITS-CLIP technique that is used to map the sites of regulatory interactions between RNA binding proteins and their target RNA sequences.He received his undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry in 1979 from Columbia University, and his MD/PhD in Molecular Biology in 1985 from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS (the American Association for the Advancement of Science).He is the son of American scientist James E. Darnell, another pioneer in RNA research.".