Harvey F. Lodish
Professor
BIOLOGY
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
United States of America
Biography
A Founding Member of Whitehead Institute, Lodish joined the MIT faculty in 1968. He has been a professor of biology since 1976 and professor of bioengineering since 1999. He earned his PhD at Rockefeller University in 1966. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston Children’s Hospital, and was Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, charged with oversight of the state’s 10- year, $1 billion investment in the life sciences. He is also the lead author of the textbook Molecular Cell Biology
Research Interest
cellular and developmental biology,erythropoietindiscovered several microRNAs and Long Non-coding RNAs that are specifically expressed in developing red blood cells and that regulate important aspects of development including cell deathidentifying and characterizing microRNAs and Long Non-coding RNAs that are specifically expressed in adipose cells
Publications
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Fruebis, J., Tsao, T. S., Javorschi, S., Ebbets-Reed, D., Erickson, M. R. S., Yen, F. T., ... & Lodish, H. F. (2001). Proteolytic cleavage product of 30-kDa adipocyte complement-related protein increases fatty acid oxidation in muscle and causes weight loss in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(4), 2005-2010
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Chen, C. Z., Li, L., Lodish, H. F., & Bartel, D. P. (2004). MicroRNAs modulate hematopoietic lineage differentiation. science, 303(5654), 83-86.
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Scherer, P. E., Williams, S., Fogliano, M., Baldini, G., & Lodish, H. F. (1995). A novel serum protein similar to C1q, produced exclusively in adipocytes. Journal of Biological chemistry, 270(45), 26746-26749.
