Philipp Kapranov

Biography

Philipp Kapranov got his Ph.D. in 2000 in Genetics from Michigan State University. In the past decade he has been primarily involved in the unbiased mapping of transcribed regions in the human genome and elements that regulate transcription of annotated and un-annotated RNAs. This resulted in the discovery of an un-expectedly complex transcriptional activity of the human genome encompassing several new classes of RNA as well as a highly complex, overlapping organization of functional elements in the genome. These discoveries have significantly impacted our understanding of the genomic organization and architecture, while redefining the importance of the so called “junk DNA” and, on a conceptual level, the definition of “gene”. This discovery has been chosen as one of the 10 top of the last decade: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1614.full. His primary research interests include systems biology and genomics in the context of gene expression and discovery of new RNA species (both protein-coding and non-coding) and their functions.  

Research Interest

genomics