Tao Pan

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Univerity of Chicago

Speaker

Tao Pan, Ph.D. is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, USA. Throughout his career he has made many contributions to several areas of RNA science and RNA technology. His current interests focus on the functional genomics and biology of tRNA, the dynamic epitranscriptome of RNA modifications, and tRNA-based diagnostics. He has developed multiple technologies to study tRNA and tRNA/mRNA modifications transcriptome-wide and applied those to biological investigations in basic and clinical science. He also co-discovered TAG-snoRNA guided protein secretion. He was the recipient of NIH director’s pioneer award on adaptive mistranslation and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He co-founded two startup companies, one in tRNA therapeutics, the other in RNA sequencing technology and disease diagnostics.