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Dr. Czech is Professor and Chair, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is a recognized leader in the field of insulin action and signal transduction in diabetes and obesity, and recently developed methods for RNAi-mediated gene silencing in cultured adipocytes. He has authored over 250 papers in the field of insulin action, and was awarded the American Diabetes Association's Eli Lilly Award for Diabetes Research, and the Banting Award for scientific achievement. Dr. Czech was on the faculty at Brown University in Medical Sciences from 1974 to 1981, when he moved to assume the Chairmanship of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. In 1990 he became the founding Chair of the Program in Molecular Medicine, which has grown to include over 250 staff and 28 faculty laboratory heads, including three Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Dr. Czech received his M.S. in Biochemistry from Duke University, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Brown University. | 