Organizing Committee Member
Dr. James E. Trosko
Professor
Michigan State University
United States
Biography
James E. Trosko completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from Michigan State University and spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under Drs. Ernest Chu; Dr. Sheldon Wolff and Dr. Richard Setlow. After joining Michigan State University, he obtained an NCI- Career Development award; spent one year at the McArdle Lab for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin under Dr. Van R. Potter. Later he was Chief of Research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation for two years in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. He spent 2 years at Seoul National University as a Korean “World Class University Professorâ€. He also spent one year at the ARNAS-Civico-Regional Cancer Hospital in Palermo, Sicily. He is currently an MSU-Distinguished Emeritus Professor. He has published more than 450 papers.
Research Area
EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL DRUG DISCOVERY AND TOXICITY STUDIES TO PREDICT THE PATHOGENESIS OF HUMAN DISEASES IN THE ERA OF “PRECISION MEDICINE†AND OF THE GLOBAL METABOLIC DISEASE CRISIS.