Konstantin Salnikow, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Cancer Biology (DCB)
Dr. Konstantin Salnikow manages a portfolio of grants focusing on cell death and survival pathways, cell stress in cancer, redox biology, and metal ion metabolism in cancer biology.
He is particularly interested in the role of iron in cancer.
Background
Before coming to DCB, Dr. Konstantin Salnikow was a staff scientist at NCI and studied molecular mechanisms of metal carcinogenesis. Prior to that, he was an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU.
Education
- Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Academy of Sciences USSR
- B.S., Cell Biology, St. Petersburg University