Kenneth S. Zaret PhD

Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D. is the Joseph Leidy Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of UPenn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine (2014-). Dr. Zaret did his graduate work on yeast genetics with Dr. Fred Sherman in the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics at the University of Rochester (1977-1982) and his postdoctoral work on steroid hormone regulation with Dr. Keith Yamamoto in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (1982-1985) at the University of California, San Francisco. From 1986 to 1999 he was in the Biochemistry Section, and then in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry at Brown University Medical School, where he attained the rank of Professor.

From 1999 to 2009, Dr. Zaret was a Senior Member and Leader of the Cell and Developmental Biology Program at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, where he held the W.W. Smith Chair in Cancer Research. He also initiated the Epigenetics and Progenitor Cells Program at Fox Chase. Dr. Zaret moved to UPenn in 2009, where he served as Associate Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Co-Director of the Epigenetics Program until 2014. Dr. Zaret is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program at UPenn.