| Roger
Chalkley, D.Phil., Senior Associate
Dean is responsible for the overview of the activities
of the office of Biomedical Research Education and Training.
These responsibilities include oversight of the IGP, the
MD/PhD Program, PostDoctoral Affairs, Graduate Student
Affairs as well as Minority Activities and supporting
Training Grant applications. Dr.
Chalkley was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford in
Chemistry and did his Post Doctoral research in gene
regulation and chromatin structure in the laboratory
of James Bonner at CalTech. After almost 20 years in
the Biochemistry Department at the University of Iowa
School of Medicine, he moved to Vanderbilt in 1986.
He has published almost 200 papers in chromatin research.
Dr. Chalkley has had an active interest in graduate
education for many years and was involved in the establishment
of the IGP where he served as Director for the last
8 years. He has been a hardcore runner for 40 years
and is a (self-described) competent, rock climber. |
Roger
Chalkley, D.Phil,
Senior Associate Dean |
