Stavros Lomvardas: New Interim Vice Dean for Basic Science Research

Stavros Lomvardas, PhD'02, has been appointed interim vice dean for basic science research. Dr. Lomvardas is the Roy and Diana Vagelos Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute.

Dr. Lomvardas’ research program is focused on the genomic mechanisms of olfactory receptor gene choice and the elucidation of the molecular principles of genome organization in health and disease. His numerous honors and awards include the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, the Young Investigator Award for Research in Olfaction, the New Innovator Award, the McKnight Scholar Award, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar Award.

Michael Shelanski, MD, PhD, former senior vice dean for research, will remain as the co-director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain and as the Henry Taub Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology.