Milton B. Adesnik, Ph.D.

Dr. Adesnik was born in New York City, USA and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Biophysics in 1969. After postdoctoral training, both at MIT and Columbia University, under fellowships from the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer Research, he joined in 1972 the faculty of New York University School of Medicine where, since 1986, he has been a Professor of Cell Biology.

For many years, Dr. Adesnik has done research on the control of gene expression and, in particular, the cytochrome P450 genes which encode membrane proteins that are necessary for many biosynthetic reactions and also play a role in the detoxification of foreign compounds and the activation of carcinogens. For over a decade, Drs. Adesnik and David Sabatini have collaborated on studies on the intracellular traffic of secretory and membrane proteins in epithelial cells.

Dr. Adesnik's administrative responsibilities at NYU include his role as Departmental Graduate Advisor and as the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology.

A member of the Editorial Board of Pharmacogenetics, Dr. Adesnik is also reviewer (past and present) of scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biology of the Cell, and Current Opinion in Cell Biology (Membranes). He has authored more than 70 scientific publications.