Chief, Functional Cellular Networks Section
Senior Investigator
Education:
Ph.D., 2003, University of Basel
Biography
Dr. Nita-Lazar received her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 2003 from the University of Basel for studies performed at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, where she analyzed protein glycosylation using mass spectrometry methods. After postdoctoral training at Stony Brook University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she continued to investigate post-translational protein modifications and their influence on cell signaling, she joined the Program in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Research, now the Laboratory of Immune System Biology, in April 2009.