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John Moran

Professor

Human Genetics

Orcid identifier0000-0002-5308-4864
  • Professor
    Human Genetics
  • Program Director
    Human Genetics
  • Center Member
    Rogel Cancer Center
  • Professor
    MM Internal Medicine - Genetic Medicine
  • Center Member
    Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
  • +1-734-615-0456 (Work)
  • University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Human Genetics, 1241 E. Catherine St., Rm 4909 Buhl Bldg., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-5618, United States

BIO

John V. Moran, Ph.D. is the Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He conducted graduate studies with Dr. Philip S. Perlman, earning a M.S. degree in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. His graduate research focused on elucidating group I and group II intron mobility mechanisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial DNA. He conducted postdoctoral studies with Dr. Haig H. Kazazian at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School as a Damon Runyon/Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund Fellow. His postdoctoral research focused on developing systems to study the mobility of Long Interspersed Element-1 retrotransposons in cultured human cells. Dr. Moran became a faculty member at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics (with tenure) and Internal Medicine (without tenure) in 2003, and to Full Professor of Human Genetics (with tenure) and Internal Medicine (without tenure) in September 2008. Dr. Moran is an alumnus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received the 2013 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics, and recently served on the American Society of Human Genetics Board of Directors. Dr. Moran has licensed reagents to Merck Pharmaceutical, was a paid consultant for a company in Europe & Gilead Sciences, and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Tessera Therapeutics (where he has equity options and is a paid consultant).

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor
    Human Genetics
  • Program Director
    Human Genetics
  • Center Member
    Rogel Cancer Center
  • Professor
    MM Internal Medicine - Genetic Medicine
  • Center Member
    Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Baltimore, United States4 Apr 1994 - 30 Sep 1994
    Human GeneticsPostdoctoral ResearchSupervised by Kazazian HHK
  • Damon Runyon Walter/Winchell Cancer Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow
    The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Genetics, Philadelphia, United States1 Oct 1994 - 30 Sep 1998
    GeneticsPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Kazazian HHK

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

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