Cell and Structural Biology

Biography

Dr. Trosko was Summa Cum Laude, CMU (1956), was a NDEA Pre doctoral Fellow, from 1960-63, at Oak Ridge National Lab, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1963-64. He also was an American Cancer Society, Postdoctoral Fellow from 1965 to 66. He received the Teacher-Scholar Award from MSU in 1970, the NCI-Research Career Development Award from 1972-to 77, the Searle Award from U.K. Environmental Mutagen Society in 1979 and the Sigma Xi Senior Scientist Award in 1985. He was honored with the MSU Distinguished Faculty Award in 1987 and the Scientific Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicology in 2001. In 2002, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award, Central Michigan University, for academic teaching and research. He recently received the 2006 "Brain Pool" award, from the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology, Seoul National University, for Adult Stem Cell Research. This award has allowed him to spend three months at Seoul National University, August-October, 2006, to identify adult cancer stem cell markers. More recently, Dr. Trosko has received a Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology “World Class University” award to do research at Seoul National University as an Invited Research Professor on human adult stem cells for two months during 2010 & 2011.

Research Interest

[DNA Repair & Mutagenesis: Discoverer of "Epigenetic Toxicants"; Human Organ-Specific Adult stem cells; Role of GAP Junctional Intercellular Communication in Homeostatic Control of Cell Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis; and Mechanism of the Barker Hypothesis.]