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Paul A. Khavari is the Carl J. Herzog Professor[1] at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Program in Epithelial Biology.[2] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.[3]

The Khavari Laboratory uses multiomic and computational approaches to study stem cell differentiation, cancer, and the genomics of common polygenic human diseases.

Education[edit]

Khavari studied biology and history at Stanford University then earned an MD at Yale School of Medicine.[4] He did research at the Brigham and Women's Hospital[4] and Harvard Medical School before undertaking Dermatology residency training at Yale.[5] He completed PhD studies in the laboratory of Gerald Crabtree at the Stanford University School of Medicine.[6]

Academic career[edit]

Khavari joined the Stanford faculty in 1993,[7] and began service as Chief of Dermatology at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System.[7][8] In 1999, he co-founded the Stanford Program in Epithelial Biology with Dr. Tony Oro and has served as Co-Director since.[9] In 2010, he was appointed Chair of the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Dermatology,[10] a leading dermatology department globally. He was one of three Stanford faculty members elected to the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) in 2014.[11][1]

Research in the Khavari laboratory focuses on genome regulation, signaling, noncoding RNAs,[12] and innovating new human tissue genetic models, with a special focus on the cutaneous epidermis. The lab accomplished the first genetic corrections of human skin tissue,[13] defined the minimal oncogenic gene set needed to transform normal human tissues into cancer,[14] and identified the kinetics of human malignant transformation using novel human tissue cancer models.[15] The Khavari group also identified new essential roles for a number of regulators in epidermal homeostasis, including ZNF750, MAF, MAFB, PRMT1, CSNK1A1, EHF, MPZL3, FDXR, TINCR, and ACTL6A.[16] It uncovered new regulators and effectors of Ras GTPases, including small noncoding snoRNAs as direct Ras-binders that modulate its function and mTORC2 as a new direct Ras downstream effector critical for the pro-proliferation impacts of Ras signaling.[17] The lab defined two major classes of genomic enhancers[18] in dynamic gene regulation and used multiomics and deep learning approaches to decode the combinatorial cis-regulatory DNA motif lexicon that drives epidermal differentiation.[19] The lab has innovated a number of technologies, including single cell perturb-ATAC-seq,[20] RNA protein interaction detection (RAPID),[21] RNA-protein microarray hybridization,[22] and mosaic human skin tissue models.[23] In cancer studies, the Khavari lab identified and characterized tumor specific keratinocytes in cutaneous squamous cell cancer,[24] characterized a new tumor suppressor pathway,[25] and defined a new sunlight induced oncogene in skin cancer.[26]

Selected Honors and Awards[edit]

Khavari has received a number of honors and awards, including most recently the Stephan Rothman Memorial Award, the highest award given by the Society of Investigative Dermatology.[27]

2021             Stephen Rothman Memorial Award, Society for Investigative Dermatology [27]

2018             Kligman-Frost Leadership Award, Society for Investigative Dermatology

2016             Lila & Murray Gruber Cancer Research Award, American Academy of Dermatology[28]

2014             National Academy of Medicine[29]

2012             American Skin Association 25th Anniversary Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award[30]

2009             American Association of Physicians

2008             Tanioku Kihei Memorial Award, Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology[31]

2004             Marion B. Sulzberger Memorial Award, American Academy of Dermatology[32]

2004             William Montagna Award, Society for Investigative Dermatology

1999             American Society for Clinical Investigation

1998             HHMI Junior Faculty Scholar Award, Stanford University[33]

1997             V.A. Young Investigator Award, V.A. Palo Alto Health Care System[34]

1996             U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

1995             Shannon Award, National Institutes of Health

Notable Trainees and their current Affiliation[edit]

  • Keith Choate, Yale
  • Jennifer Zhang, Duke
  • Min Fang, University of Washington
  • Yoshi Kubo, University of Tokushima
  • Cornelia Seitz, Goettingen
  • Masahito Tarutani,Tokyo University
  • Zurab Siprashvili, Stanford
  • Kun Qu, USTC
  • George Sen, UCSD
  • Susana Ortiz-Urda, UCSF
  • Todd Ridky, University of Pennsylvania
  • Kavita Sarin, Stanford
  • Jennifer Chen, Stanford
  • Lisa Boxer, NIH
  • Cari Lee, Stanford
  • Markus Kretz, University of Regensburg
  • Xiaomin Bao, Northwestern
  • Bryan Sun, UCSD
  • Eon Rios, Stanford
  • Aparna Bhaduri, UCLA
  • Andrew Ji, Mount Sinai  

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  23. ^ Sen, George L.; Reuter, Jason A.; Webster, Daniel E.; Zhu, Lilly; Khavari, Paul A. (28 January 2010). "DNMT1 maintains progenitor function in self-renewing somatic tissue". Nature. 463 (7280): 563–567. Bibcode:2010Natur.463..563S. doi:10.1038/nature08683. PMC 3050546. PMID 20081831.[non-primary source needed]
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