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JHacia
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- Bio
Joseph G. Hacia is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. His research is focused on identifying adaptative changes in metabolic pathways that are responsible for recently evolving complex phenotypes relevant to human health and disease. His laboratory is currently investigating differences in lipid metabolic pathways among human and non-human primates and their relationships to diet.
His research also focuses on identifying the genetic and molecular basis for a group of multi-systemic human neurological disorders caused by impaired peroxisome function. These include peroxisome biogenesis disorders of the Zellweger spectrum (PBD-ZSD), rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) type 1, and X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). In addition to defining the molecular basis for these peroxisomal disorders, Dr. Hacia's laboratory is actively engaged in collaborative projects to screen large chemical libraries for drugs that can be used to treat patients. This is especially important given the impending nation-wide screens for newborns with these disorders.
Dr. Hacia was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow, a recipient of the American Society of Human Genetics Postdoctoral Translational Research Award, and a V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar. Dr. Hacia currently serves on the editorial boards of Genome Research, Nucleic Acids Research, and BMC Genomics. He is a member of American Society of Human Genetics and NIH grant review panels.
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- http://www.usc.edu/programs/pibbs/site/faculty/hacia_j.htm
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