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J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Executive Vice President

Scientific Director

Chair, Cell & Molecular Biology Department

Director, Pediatric Translational Neuroscience Initiative

Edward F. Barry Endowed Chair in Cell and Molecular Biology

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J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD

Cell & Molecular Biology

MS 340, Room 4063D

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

MemphisTN 38105-3678

Education

MD, PhD – Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Residency (Neurology) – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Fellowship (Neurogenetics) – Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS/NIH

Honors & Awards

  • 2020 The Normal Saunders International Research Prize
  • 2020 The Potamkin Prize 
  • 2015 Selected as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • 2015 Presidential Lecture of the American Neurological Association
  • 2015 Elected to the American Association of Physicians
  • 2015 Lisa S. Krivickas Lecture, Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology
  • 2014 George Karpati Lecture, Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University
  • 2014 Vince Kidd Memorial Mentor of the Year Award
  • 2013 Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award, American Neurological Association
  • 2013 Elected Fellow of the American Neurological Association
  • 2010 Elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation

Research Interests

  • Neurogenetics
  • Mechanisms of neurological diseases
  • RNA and RNA-binding proteins
  • Biomolecular condensates 

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