Ruth Halaban, PhD
Senior Research Scientist in Dermatology
Departments & Organizations
Melanoma Program
Dermatology
Gene Regulation and Functional Genomics
Research Interests
Genes controlling differentiation, proliferation and malignant transformation of melanocytes; growth factors and receptor kinases; signal transduction; epigenetic modification and gene expression; markers for melanoma more...
Education
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 1968
Selected Publications
- Koga, Y., Pelizzola, M., Cheng, E., Krauthammer, M., Sznol, M., Ariyan, S., Narayan, D., Molinaro, A. M., Halaban, R., and Weissman, S. M. Genome-wide screen of promoter methylation identifies novel markers in melanoma. Genome Res, published online June 2, 2009.
- Halaban, R., Krauthammer, M. Pelizzola, M., Cheng, E., Kovacs, D. Sznol, M. Ariyan, S. Narayan, D., Bacchiocchi, A., Molinaro, A., Kluger, K. Deng, M., Tran, N. Zhang, W. Picardo, M., Enghild, JJ. (2009), Integrative Analysis of Epigenetic Modulation in Melanoma Cell Response to Decitabine: Clinical Implications. PlosOne, 4, e4563
- Pelizzola, M., Y. Koga, et al. (2008). MEDME: An experimental and analytical methodology for the estimation of DNA methylation levels based on microarray derived MeDIP-enrichment. Genome Res 18: 1652-9.
