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Salman Banani became Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago in 2024. He is a physician-scientist and biophysicist whose lab broadly investigates the disruption of cellular structures and organization in the context of diseases, while also aiming to understand normal cellular functions that enable new therapeutic strategies. His group specifically focuses on biomolecular condensation, a fundamental process that cells utilize to organize biochemical reactions into compartments through phase separation. These compartments, known as condensates, have been observed in cells across the kingdoms of life and are disrupted in numerous human diseases, ranging from cancers to rare genetic disorders. His research team combines approaches from cell biology, genetics, biophysics, and clinical pathology to glean fundamental principles about the functions of condensates in cells while studying their disruptions in disease.
Department of Philosophy