Robert B. Darnell

Robert Bernard Darnell (born October 29, 1957) is an American neurooncologist and neuroscientist, founding director and former CEO of the New York Genome Center, the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at The Rockefeller University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research into rare autoimmune brain diseases led to the invention of the HITS-CLIP method to study RNA regulation, and he is developing ways to explore the regulatory portions—known as the "dark matter"—of the human genome.

At The Rockefeller University Darnell is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, and Senior Physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital, has been an HHMI Investigator since 1992, and an Adjunct Attending Neuro-Oncologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was named to the New York Genome Center position on November 28, 2012, a position he held through 2016. His publications can be found via Google Scholar and his ORCID ID 0000-0002-5134-8088. Provided by Wikipedia