Brain Disorders & Therapy

Edward Giniger

Biography

Dr Giniger received his BS from Yale University (1979) and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1988), the latter studying the yeast transcriptional activator, GAL4, with Dr Mark Ptashne. Dr Giniger then turned to postdoctoral work with Dr Yuh Nung Jan at UCSF, where he initiated studies of axon guidance in Drosophila. Dr Giniger continued this work while on the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle, WA, prior to joining NINDS as an Investigator in 2004.