Anders Näär's Biography

Anders Näär, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Anders M. Näär is a Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. He received a B.S. degree in biochemistry/biotechnology from the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology with Michael G. Rosenfeld at UC San Diego/HHMI in 1995, studying nuclear hormone receptor mechanisms of gene regulation. He was a postdoctoral research fellow with Robert Tjian at UC Berkeley/HHMI, where he discovered the human Mediator transcriptional co-activator complex. In 2001, Dr. Näär accepted an Assistant Professor position at the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009, and Professor with tenure in 2012. A major focus of his lab is to understand transcriptional and microRNA regulatory mechanisms controlling cholesterol/lipid and energy homeostasis to guide novel therapeutic strategies to treat cardiometabolic diseases.