Fatah Kashanchi PhD, MS

Dr. Kashanchi received his Ph.D. in 1991 in Microbiology with an emphasis on retrovirus gene expression. He worked with Dr. C. Wood on HIV-1 gene expression, who was a student of Nobel Laurette Dr. Tongawa (1987) on B-cell development and gp120 ELISA. He then moved to Washington, DC for his Postdoctoral and Research Associate fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health from 1991-1998. He was tenured at the George Washington University medical school as a full Professor in 2004. He moved to GMU as director of research in 2010 and stayed in that position until 2013. He is currently the director of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology located at GMU- Sic-Tech campus.