Phillip D. Zamore

Phillip D. Zamore is the Gretchen Stone Cook Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Chair of the RNA Therapeutics at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and an Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

His laboratory studies small RNA silencing pathways in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, including RNA interference (RNAi), microRNA, and PIWI-interacting RNA pathways. Zamore and his collaborators seek to use these insights to design therapies for human diseases, including Huntington’s disease. Zamore holds over 100 US & foreign patents and has founded several therapeutics companies.

Zamore received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University and completed postdoctoral studies on the role of the RNA binding proteins in Drosophila development at The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.