Prescott Deininger, PhD

Professor and Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Endowed Chair

Director, Tulane Cancer Center
Phone
504-988-6385
Office LCRC 816

Education & Affiliations

PhD, Physical Chemistry, UC Davis
BA, Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz

Biography

Prescott Deininger is a molecular geneticist with a focus on genetic instability of the human genome in cancer. His work focuses primarily on mobile elements in the human genome and how they serve as risk factors for increased genetic instability. Dr. Deininger has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the NIEHS National Toxicology Program and the National Academies Committee for Disaster Resilience in the Biomedical Research Enterprise. He is an executive editor for Analytical Biochemistry and serves on numerous journal editorial boards. Dr. Deininger serves as the director for the Tulane Cancer Center and holds the Brown Foundation Endowed Chair in Oncology.

Research Areas

  • Human Genetic Instability
  • Cancer Genetics

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow, AAAS

Publications

Please view Dr. Deininger's publications at his NCBI profile page.