Daniel C. DiMaio, MD, PhD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology; Scientific Director, Yale Cancer Center; Deputy Director, Yale Cancer Center
Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Microbiology | Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Center for RNA Science and Medicine, Yale
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Therapeutic Radiology: Radiobiology
Genetics
Molecular Virology
Research Interests
Molecular Biology of Tumor Viruses; Mechanisms of Viral Carcinogenesis; Molecular Basis of Cell Growth Regulation and Senescence; Manipulating Cells and Viruses with Artificial Transmembrane Proteins; Oncogenes; Sensecence; Signal Transduction; Trans-membrane Proteins; Tumor Suppressor Genes; Virology; Virus more...
Education
- M.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1978
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1981
Selected Publications
- Goodwin, E.C., Lipovsky, A., Inoue, T., Magaldi, T., Yates, K.E., Paton, A., Paton, J., Atwood, W., Tsai, B., and DiMaio, D. (2011) BiP and multiple DNAJ molecular chaperones in the endo-plasmic reticulum are required for efficient SV40 infection. mBio 2: doi:10.1128/mBio.00101-11.
- Martinez, I., Cazella, D., Almstead, L., Steitz. J., and DiMaio, D. (2011) miR-29 and miR-30 regulate B-Myb during cellular senescence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108:522-7. PMID: 21187425.
- Cammett, T.J., Jun, S.J., Cohen, E.B., Barrea, F.N., Engelman, D., and DiMaio, D. (2010) Construction and genetic selection of small transmembrane proteins that activate the human erythropoietin receptor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 107:3447-52.



