The Program in Systems Biology has been elevated to full department status, with Marian Walhout, PhD, the Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research and professor of molecular medicine, serving as the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology, Terence R. Flotte, MD, executive deputy chancellor and provost of UMass Chan Medical School and dean of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, announced on Sep. 27. Dr. Walhout and Job Dekker, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Joseph J. Byrne Chair in Biomedical Research and professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, joined the Medical School in 2003 and have co-directed the Program in Systems Biology since its establishment in 2011.
