Michael Joseph Eck MD, PhD

Dr. Eck received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1991. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Stephen Harrison at Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School before joining the DFCI in 1996. Dr. Eck is currently a Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the structure and regulation of tyrosine kinases in cancer and on structure-based approaches to the discovery of novel inhibitors. The Eck lab also studies the structure of formin proteins and their role in assembling the actin cytoskeleton.