Speaker

Dr. BRENDAN MANNING

Harvard University

Molecular Metabolism
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Brendan Manning is a Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Molecular Metabolism at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), with additional faculty affiliations in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Manning received his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his Ph.D. from Yale University. Following postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, he joined the faculty of the then newly established Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at HSPH (renamed Molecular Metabolism in 2019). He also served as Faculty Director of the PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health for 8 years. Dr. Manning has received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute for his laboratory’s ongoing research on the PI3K-mTOR signaling network and its control of cell growth and metabolism.