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Manuel Perucho earned his PhD in biological sciences at the University of Madrid, Spain in 1976. He did postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin and at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he was subsequently appointed to staff in 1981. Following appointments at SUNY Stony Brook as Assistant and Associate Professor in 1982 and 1987, respectively, Dr. Perucho joined the California Institute for Biological Research in La Jolla, serving as Research Program Director from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Perucho was recruited to Sanford Burnham Prebys in 1995.

Other Appointments

Adjunct Professor, Pathology Department, University of California, San Diego

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Michiko N. Fukuda earned her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Tokyo in 1980. She did postdoctoral work at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle prior to her recruitment to Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in 1982.
 

Education

1980: PhD, University of Tokyo, Biochemistry
1970: MS, University of Tokyo, Biochemistry
1968: BS, Tokyo University of Education, Botany

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Kristiina Vuori earned her MD and PhD at University of Oulu, Finland. After completion of internship and residency, she received postdoctoral training at the Institute and was appointed to faculty in 1996. Dr. Vuori was selected as a PEW Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 1997. She has been co-Director of the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, housed at Sanford Burnham Prebys, since its inception in 2005. She was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute’s NCI-Designated Cancer Center in 2003, and Director of the Cancer Center in 2006. In 2008, she was appointed Executive Vice President for Scientific Affairs at Sanford Burnham Prebys. She was President of the Institute from 2010 to 2022. 

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Giovanni Paternostro earned his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, England, in 1997. He has obtained his MD and Board Certification in Cardiology from the University of Rome, Italy. After postdoctoral training at the Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London and at Sanford Burnham Prebys he was promoted to Research Investigator in 2001 and to Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2001 he was nominated member of the Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering, UC San Diego. His research has been recognized by the 2002 Society for Geriatric Cardiology Basic Science Award and by the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award. Dr. Paternostro now holds adjunct faculty positions at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and at the Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego. His lab is located at Sanford Burnham Prebys.

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Nicholas Cosford, PhD has served on the Sanford Burnham Prebys Board of Trustees since 2023. He is the first faculty member to do so.

Cosford joined the Sanford Burnham Prebys faculty in 2008 as an associate professor. In 2013, he became a full professor. His lab investigates the interactions of small molecule compounds with therapeutically important proteins and cellular signaling pathways. With a specific focus on the discovery and optimization of compounds that might treat cancer, central nervous system diseases and infectious diseases.

Prior to joining Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2005, Cosford worked in both the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.  At Sibia Neurosciences and at Merck Research Laboratories, he directed multidisciplinary research teams focused on small-molecule hit-to-lead optimization and was responsible for moving several lead compounds through to the clinical phase, including a nicotinic agonist (Altinicline) from research to Phase II clinical trials for treating Parkinson’s disease.

He is an author of more than 90 peer-reviewed, published scientific papers, and has been issued more than 40 issued patents, with an additional 40 patent applications pending.

Cosford has a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Bath in England and Doctor of Philosophy degree in organic chemistry from Emory University in Atlanta, GA.  

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