Claudio Basilico, M.D.,
Professor and Chair,
Department of Microbiology
direct line: (212) 263-5341

Education and General Information

Dr. Basilico received an M.D. degree from the University of Milan in 1960, and the "Libera Docenza" in Microbiology from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1969. After postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics in Naples, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, he became an Assoc. Prof. of Pathology at NYU School of Medicine in 1970. In 1976 he was promoted to Professor of Pathology and in 1990 he became Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Microbiology.

Throughout his career, Dr. Basilico's research interests have focused on the mechanisms regulating cell proliferation and differentiation. He has contributed important work on the molecular biology of oncogenic viruses, gene expression and cell cycle progression in animal cells, and signal transduction by growth factors and their receptors.

Basilico Lab
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550 First Avenue
New York NY 10016
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