Frank J. Slack, Winner of the Alter International Biomedicine and Public Health Award

Alter International Biomedicine and Public Health Award

Dr. Frank J. Slack

Frank Slack is Director of the Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine hosted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He is also the Shields Warren Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Frank Slack received his B.Sc. from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, before completing his Ph.D. in molecular biology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He started work on microRNAs as a postdoctoral fellow in Gary Ruvkun’s laboratory at HMS. Dr. Slack subsequently moved to the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, where he was a program leader in the Yale Cancer Center and the director of the Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine. There he discovered that microRNAs regulate key human oncogenes and have the potential to act as therapeutics. He also demonstrated the first role for a microRNA in the aging process.

Dr. Frank J. Slack receiving the Alter International Biomedicine and Public Health Award from Dr. Harvey J. Alter and Dr. Florian Kongoli at FLOGEN SIPS 2024

Dr. Harvey J. Alter congratulating Dr. Frank J. Slack during the FLOGEN SIPS 2024 award ceremony

Dr. Frank J. Slack delivering an acceptance speech during the FLOGEN SIPS 2024 award ceremony