William J. Pavan BS, PhD

Dr William Pavan received his B.S. in animal science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his PhD in physiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Shirley Tilghman, Ph.D., at Princeton University in which he studied the developmental genetics of mouse coat color pigmentation.

Subsequently, Dr Pavan joined NHGRI in 1994, when he began a research program focused on using genomic tools and genetic manipulation of model systems to decipher genome function and to dissect gene regulatory pathways in development and disease. His primary areas of interest include the development and diseases of melanocytes, the cells responsible for pigmentation of skin and hair, and the lysosomal storage disorder Niemann-Pick disease, Type C.