David Virshup,
Professor and Director,
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
David Virshup, MD, is the inaugural Director of the Program in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Prior to moving to steamy Singapore, he spent 17 years skiing in Utah, where he held an endowed chair at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. While spending the majority of his time on laboratory-based research, until arriving in Singapore he was also a practicing pediatric hematologist/oncologist. His laboratory studies Wnt Signaling and signaling through protein phosphorylation with a focus on Protein Phosphatase 2A. Virshup received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1981. He completed his clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Johns Hopkins, while his research training was in the departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Asia Editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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