Robert Matusik, Ph.D. - Profile
Professor of Urologic Surgery, Matusik Lab
Faculty Member, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology
A-1302 MCN
1161 21st Avenue South
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, United States, 37232-2765
Phone: 615-343-1902
Fax: 615-322-8990
Research Profile
Robert Matusik is professor of Urologic Surgery, Cancer Biology and Cell & Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of Urologic Research in the department of Urologic Surgery. He earned his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Rochester in New York in 1976 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cell biology at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1979. Matusik joined the faculty of the University of Manitoba (Canada) Department of Physiology in 1979 and grew through the ranks to the position of full professor by the time he left in 1996 to join Vanderbilt?s faculty. He also served as a visit scientist for the British Columbia Cancer Agency, based in Vancouver, from 1992-1993. Matusik holds numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Defense to support his research into the genetic, molecular and hormonal factors that contribute to the development and progression of prostate cancer. He also serves as a co-investigator in a Department of Defense grant to support development of a prostate cancer program at Meharry Medical College, a historically black institution in Nashville and a collaborator with Vanderbilt through the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. A former Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell fellow, Matusik has served on numerous study sections, site visit teams and review committees for the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He also served on the editorial board of the journal Molecular Endocrinology.
Research Keywords
cancer, developmental biology, endocrinology, gene regulation, gene therapy, proteomics, receptor, recombination, transcription, transcription factor, transformation, chromatin, endocrinology, fertility, gene regulation, gene therapy, genetics, genome, genomics, mouse receptor, reproduction, transcription factor
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| Email: | robert.matusik@vanderbilt.edu |
| Phone: | 615-343-1902 |
| Fax: | 615-322-8990 |
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| (Default) address |
A-1302 MCN 1161 21st Avenue South Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN United States 37232-2765 |


