Paulette J. McCormick
Director, Center for Functional Genomics
Professor of Biology
Dr. McCormick received her B.A. degree from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1972. She worked on tumor virology at New York University and Harvard Medical School before obtaining her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University at Albany, SUNY in 1979. She did her postdoctoral training in Cancer Genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, becoming an instructor in 1983. In 1985 she returned to the University at Albany as an Assistant Professor in developmental genetics and cancer becoming a full professor in 1977. She co-founded and directs the University's Center for Functional Genomics and also helped establish the University's program in Forensic Molecular Biology, one of the first such degree granting programs in the world. She is Director of Cancer Genetics for the Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany and Co-Director for one of the Nation's four Mutant Mouse Resource Centers. Dr. McCormick is currently a member of the NIH-NCI Pathology B Study Section.
Dr. McCormick's research has been continuosly funded by the NIH and focuses on cancer, metastases and developmental genetics. Laboratory projects include:
- analysis of retinoids in cytodifferentiation therapy with a focus on microarray studies
- identification of a novel tumor promoting gene in the mouse
- examination of the role of myoR in development
- analysis of the role of cell surface LAMP in promoting metastasis
- determination of the extent of differential global gene expression between different mouse strains, mice of different ages, different tissues, among other variables.