Craig D. Logsdon PhD

Craig D. Logsdon is a Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. Dr. Logsdon is interested in understanding pancreatic diseases. He has made several original contributions to pancreatology including the first descriptions of primary acinar cultures; the first demonstration of direct effects of EGF, FGF, and TGFb, the discovery that human acinar cells lack CCK receptors, the first direct evidence of NFkB-induced pancreatitis, the first studies on ER stress in pancreatitis, and the first direct proof that intracellular trypsin can initiate pancreatitis. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology at the University of California.