David Ginty
David D. Ginty | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality |  American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Seidel |
| Other academic advisors | Michael Greenberg |
| Doctoral students | Soyuhn Ahn, Jean-Francois Cloutier, Chenghua Gu, Brian Pierchala, Haihong Ye, Antonella Riccio, Rejji Kuruvilla, Naren Ramanan |
Dr. David D. Ginty (born 1962) is an American neuroscientist and developmental biologist.
Dr. Ginty graduated from Mount Saint Mary's College in 1984 and received his Ph.D. degree in physiology from East Carolina University in 1989 for graduate work with Edward Seidel, on the regulation of polyamine compounds and their metabolism during cell growth and proliferation. Moving to Boston, Ginty completed postdoctoral research, first, with John Wagner at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, and then with Michael Greenberg in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, where he made several seminal contributions to signal transduction and growth factor signaling in neurons.[1]
In 1995, he was invited by Solomon Snyder to move to Baltimore, Maryland, to become a new faculty member of the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In the mid-1990s, he received several young investigator awards including a 1995 Klingenstein Award,[2] a 1996 Pew Biomedical Scholar Award,[3] and the Basil O'Conner Scholar Award from the March of Dimes. After becoming established, he was appointed investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and he received a Jacob Javitz Neuroscience Investigator's Award from the National Institutes of Health.[4][5] His lab at Johns Hopkins and more recently at Harvard revealed functions and mechanisms of action of neuronal growth factors and axonal guidance cues, and mechanisms of assembly and functional organization of the neural circuits that underlie the sense of touch. David Ginty is currently the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
References
- ^ "David D. Ginty, Ph.D." HHMI Investigators. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "Klingenstein Fellowship Awards: 1995". The Esther A. & and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "David D. Ginty". Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The Center for Health Professions, University of California San Francisco. 2006-07-10. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
- ^ "Grant Number: 5R37NS034814-13" (Abstract; Database Entry). CRISP. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 2007-11-17. [dead link]
- ^ "Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award (R37)". National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. National Institutes of Health. 2006-07-06. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
External links
- [1] David Ginty Investigator Page from HHMI