Bio

Gennaro D'Urso, Ph.D, began his career in the laboratory of Dr. James Roberts at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Seattle where he was the first to identify a biochemical role of Cdc2 kinase at the G1 to S phase transition during the mammalian cell cycle (published in Science in 1990). He completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Sir Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2001) during the 1990s where he identified a novel checkpoint operating in S phase. In 1997, he joined the faculty of the University of Miami School of Medicine where he continued his research on DNA replication, cell cycle checkpoints, and the genetics of human disease. In 2013 he founded IOMICS Pathways Initiative, a non-profit organization providing educational outreach for high school students. In 2014, he founded Genetic Networks, LLC, a for profit company dedicated to identifying and developing therapeutics for human diseases through network biodiscovery.