Nikola Pavletich

Nikola Panayot Pavletich is the former chair of structural biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.[1]

Education

Pavletich received his BS in chemistry from Caltech in 1988 and his PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1991.[2] He did a postdoc at MIT with Carl Pabo.

Career

He joined the faculty at Sloan Kettering in 1993 and was named chair of the Structural Biology Program in 2003.[3] He has been an HHMI investigator since 1997.

His laboratory researches malignant cell growth and DNA damage contributing to the development of cancer. DNA damage repair is a significant factor in whether a cell will become cancerous after genetic insult. Some of his major focuses have been the mTOR pathway and BRCA1. His lab uses x-ray crystallography to determine how proteins interact.[4][3]

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