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Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego Dr. Verma received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and an M.S. in biochemistry from Lucknow University in India. After postdoctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined The Salk Institute as an Assistant Professor in 1974 and was appointed Professor in 1985. He has been an American Cancer Society Professor in Molecular Biology since 1990, and in 1995 became an elected member of The Third World Academy of Sciences. His major research interests are oncogenes and tumor suppressors, normal genes whose alteration can cause cancer. A second component of his research is the development of techniques for gene therapy. In 1997, Dr. Verma was selected to be one of the first three March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation Franklin D. Roosevelt Investigators and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine and in 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Verma has served as President of the American Society of Gene Therapy. | 