David Virshup

Biography

David Virshup, MD, is the inaugural Director of the Program in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at the newly established Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Until July, 2007, he was an investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the first Willard Snow Hansen Presidential Professor of Cancer Research at the University of Utah. While spending the majority of his time on laboratory-based research, he is also a practicing pediatric hematologist/oncologist. His laboratory studies protein phosphorylation, a key signaling mechanism, and its effects on circadian rhythms and cell proliferation. Virshup received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1981. He completed his clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Johns Hopkins. His research training was in the departments of Pediatrics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins.

Research Interest

Wnt signaling pathways with emphasis on protein kinases and phosphatases that are regulated by Wnt, and that control the fate of cells