Richard Sherwin

My first love is the education of the undergraduate student, and I have been committed to and involved in such for the last 30 years at several institutions. I received by Ph.D. in populational and evolutionary genetics, but have taught a wide variety of biology courses since then.

I have spent several summers recently doing research in human cytogenetics in the Department of Human Genetics at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. I collaborated during a sabbatical year with several physicians doing research on the relationship between overexpression of p53 protein and outcome in pediatric brain tumor patients.

More recently I worked for a year in the Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. We analyzed primarily bone marrow specimens from patients for chromosomal abnormalities. I also performed many different kinds of FISH (Fluorescent In Situ Hybridizations) analyses on patient's cells for chromosomal abnormalities.

• Richard Sherwin, Retired Lecturer

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