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Arshad Desai received his Ph.D. in cell biology from the University of California, San Francisco. He conducted his postdoctoral work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology & Genetics in Dresden. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in late 2002. Desai is a recipient of the Damon Runyon Scholar Award and the American Society for Cell Biology Early Career Award. He has also been honored with the Keith Porter Fellowship. In addition to his faculty role, he serves as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Cell Biology and has chaired review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the European Research Council. Desai is a lifetime fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology. His research is primarily focused on understanding the pathways and molecular mechanisms that ensure accurate genome inheritance during cell division, with implications for cancer biology.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).