Clifford Tabin

Cliff Tabin
Cliff Tabin in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born	Clifford James Tabin (1954-01-19) January 19, 1954 (age 63) Glencoe, Illinois
Fields	Genetics Oncogenes Hedgehog signaling pathway
Institutions	Harvard University Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Alma mater	University of Chicago (BSc) MIT (PhD)
Thesis	Activation of the c-Ha-ras Oncogene (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Weinberg
Doctoral students	Ava Brent Liz Bromley Nikki Davis Debbie Goff Tiffany Heanue Jimmy Hu Tamar Katz Johanna Kowalko Mike Levin Craig Nelson Sahar Nissim Sylvia Pagan-Westphal Meredith Protas Jose Rivera-Feliciano Paul Scherz Amy Shyer Devyn Smith
Known for	Sonic hedgehog
Influences	David Baltimore Doug Melton
Notable awards	ForMemRS (2014) Conklin Medal (2012) March of Dimes Prize (2008) Membership of the NAS (2007) NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1999)
Website genetics.med.harvard.edu/tabin/ genetics.med.harvard.edu/faculty/tabin

Professor Clifford James Tabin (born 1954) is Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Tabin was educated at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1976. He went on to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was awarded a PhD in 1984 for work on the regulation of gene expression in the Ras subfamily of oncogenes supervised by Robert Weinberg based in the MIT Department of Biology. In Weinberg's lab, Tabin constructed murine leukemia virus, the first recombinant retrovirus that could be used as a eukaryotic vector.

Following his PhD, Tabin did postdoctoral research with Douglas A. Melton at Harvard University, then moved to Massachusetts General Hospital where he worked on the molecular biology of limb development. He was appointed to the faculty in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in 1989, and promoted to Full Professor in 1997 and Chairman of the Department in January 2007.

As of 2014^[update] Tabin's research investigates the genetic regulation of vertebrate development, combining classical methods of experimental embryology with modern molecular and genetic techniques for regulating gene expression during embryogenesis.