Adam Kuspa
President @The Robert A. Welch Foundation
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WORK HISTORY
President @The Robert A. Welch Foundation
EDUCATION
UC San Diego
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Stanford University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry
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ABOUT ADAM KUSPA
Dr. Kuspa earned degrees in Biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego (B.A.) and Stanford University (Ph.D.), and he served as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Diego. He joined the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in 1993, and was involved in several programs including Developmental Biology and Molecular and Human Genetics, and the Human Genome Sequencing Center. Dr. Kuspa was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005. He served as chair of the Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry from March 2006 to April 2011, and headed Baylor College of Medicine\'s research enterprise from 2010 to 2019, as SVP and Dean of Research.Dr. Kuspa’s interests include cell differentiation of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, and the recognition of bacteria by amoeba. He directed the consortium that completed the first genome sequence of an amoeba, and he and his colleagues discovered an innate immune system in the social amoeba that utilizes protein homologs found in similar systems in plants and animals, suggesting a common evolutionary origin for bacterial recognition by eukaryotes.
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