RESEARCH SUMMARY:
Frank Dean received his B.A. in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The University of Chicago in 1984, where he studied the mechanism of DNA topoisomerases. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City from 1985-1994, where he studied the initiation of DNA replication by the simian virus 40 T antigen. From 1995-1999 he studied DNA repair at the Rockefeller University, also in New York City. From 1999-2002 he worked on DNA amplification reactions at Molecular Staging, Inc., a small biotech startup in New Haven, CT., and from 2002-2008 on the search for new antibiotics at Replidyne, Inc., another small biotech startup in Denver, CO.
Past and current research interests include the enzymology of DNA replication, DNA recombination, and DNA repair.
