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Haig H. Kazazian
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics

Haig H. Kazazian is a professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Early life and education

Kazazian attended Dartmouth College, receiving his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1959, followed by a two-year program at Dartmouth Medical School. He completed his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and interned in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. He then returned to Baltimore, Maryland, studying genetics with Dr. Barton Childs at Johns Hopkins and molecular biology with Dr. Harvey Itano at the National Institutes of Health.[1][2]

Career

Kazazian joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1969, became head of the Pediatric Genetics Unit and a full professor in 1977, and became Director of the Center for Medical Genetics at Johns Hopkins in 1988[1].

In 1994 Kazazian became Chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, holding the position until 2006. He remained at the University of Pennsylvaniaf as the Seymour Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine in Genetics from 2006-2010[1].

In July 2010, Kazazian returned to Johns Hopkins, holding the position of a Professor in the Institute of Genetic Medicine[1].

Research

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Haig H. Kazazian". InformIT. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ^ Kazazian, Haig H. (31 August 2021). "A Long, Fulfilling Career in Human Genetics". Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 22 (1): 27–53. doi:10.1146/annurev-genom-111620-095614. ISSN 1527-8204. Retrieved 5 February 2022.

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