Donald E. Ganem, M.D.
Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Microbiology and Medicine University of California, San Francisco
ganem@cgl.ucsf.edu

Mailing Address:
University of California San Francisco
513 Parnassus Avenue Box 0552
San Francisco, CA 94143-0552

Office Location:
Room HSW 1522

Research Interests:
(i) The biology of Kaposi's sarcoma and its associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8)

(ii) Genomic approaches to new viral pathogen discovery in acute and chronic human diseases (with Prof. J. DeRisi, UCSF Dept of Biochemistry)

Select Publications:

Chiu CY, A Urisman, T Greenhow, S Rouskin, S Yagi, D Schnurr, C Wright, WL Drew, PS Weintrub, J DeRisi and D Ganem. 2008. Utility of DNA Microarrays for Detection of Viruses in Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in children. J Pediatr. 153(1):76-83.

Kistler AL, Gancz A, Clubb S, Skewes-Cox P, Fischer K, Sorber K, Chiu CY, Lublin A, Mechani S, Farnoushi Y, Greninger A, Wen CC, Karlene SB, Ganem D, Derisi JL. 2008. Recovery of divergent avian bornaviruses from cases of proventricular dilatation disease: identification of a candidate etiologic agent. Virol J. 5(1):88.

Ziegelbauer, J, Sullican C and Ganem, D. 2009. Serial array-based expression screens identify BCLAF/Btf as a target of multiple KSHV-encoded miRNAs. Natuire Genetics. 41:130-134.

Bisson, S, Page, A-L and Ganem, D. 2009. A KSHV protein that forms inhibitory complexes with type I interferon receptor subunits, Jak and STAT proteins and blocks interferon-mediated signal transduction. J. Virology. in press.

Education and Training:

AB, Harvard College, 1972

MD, Harvard Medical School, 1977

Medical Resident, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1977-1979

Infectious Diseases Fellow, UCSF, 1979-1983

Chief medical resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1983-1984

Relevant Links:

http://microbiology.ucsf.edu/micro/faculty/ganem_folder/index.html

http://bms.ucsf.edu/faculty/ganem.html

http://tetrad.ucsf.edu/faculty.php?ID=61

http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/ganem.html