Pam Silver



I am a Professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. I am also a member of the Harvard Systems Biology Graduate Program, which I helped found Harvard University Graduate Program in Systems Biology and a member of the Harvard Medical School BBS Graduate Program and the Harvard Biophysics and Chemical Biology Graduate Programs. I am interested in lots of things ranging from Systems to Synthetic Biology as are the members of my lab. I am also involved in a number of educational efforts including co-leading the Harvard iGEM team.

If you are interested in joining the group or requesting a reagent go to  Silver Lab at OpenWetWare. I welcome applications from interested scientists at all levels (undergrad to postdoc) and from just about any background.

Contact information:

Pamela Silver

Department of Systems Biology 200 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115

Tel: 617-432-6401 FAX: 617-432-5012

pamela_silver~AT~hms.harvard.edu

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Pamela Silver received her BS in Chemistry and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California where she was an NIH Pre-doctoral Fellow. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in the Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology where she was a Fellow of the American Cancer Society and The Medical Foundation. Subsequently, she was an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Molecular Biology at Princeton University where she was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, a Research Scholar of the March of Dimes and was awarded an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. She moved to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute where she was a Professor in the Dept of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. She was named a Claudia Adams Barr Investigator and awarded the Mentoring Award for the PhD Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School. In 2004, she became one of the founding members of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and the first Director of the Harvard University PhD Program in Systems Biology. In 2009, she became one of the first members of the Harvard University Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Her work was recognized by an Innovation Award at BIO2007 and has been funded by grants from the NIH, DOD, DOE, NSF, Novartis, Merck and The Keck Foundation. She currently holds an NIH MERIT award and she was recently appointed a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute. She has served on numerous government and private advisory panels including the NIH Pioneer and Innovator Award Committees, the NAS/NRC Study on Network Science, the OSD/NA Biodefense Workshop, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, the Novartis Oncology Program, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Paul Glenn Institute for Aging Research. She has served on numerous editorial boards including Nature Molecular Systems Biology, BMC Systems Biology, Genes and Development, Synthetic Biology and PLoS One. She was the Editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell and has served on the Council of the American Society for Cell Biology and on the Committee for Women in Cell Biology. In her free time, she enjoys sailboat racing and running - she has competed in several Boston Marathons.