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Thomas L. Clarke, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. He studied Medical Science at the University of Exeter in the UK, which included a twelve-month research internship at Harvard Medical School. He pursued his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, working in the laboratory of Dr. Clare Davies, focusing on the importance of the arginine methyltransferase enzyme PRMT5 in the DNA damage response. Following his Ph.D., he was awarded an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship to join Dr. Johnathan Whetstine's lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he studied chromatin dynamics and histone modifications. He then worked under Dr. Raul Mostoslavsky to bridge chromatin dynamics with DNA damage repair and genome stability maintenance, supported by multiple fellowships. In January 2024, he joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor to lead his independent research laboratory, specializing in identifying novel chromatin factors involved in DNA damage repair.
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Joined the faculty to lead an independent research laboratory.
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