David Sabatini

David Sabatini is an associate professor of biology at MIT, a member at the Whitehead Institute, an associate member at the MIT Center for Cancer Research and an associate member at the Broad Institute. His research focuses on characterizing the basic mechanisms that regulate growth — the process whereby cells and organisms accumulate mass and increase in size — and understanding their roles in normal physiology and disease. One area of interest is a cellular system called the Target of Rapamycin (TOR) pathway, a major regulator of growth in many eukaryotic species. In addition, his laboratory is also developing and applying new technologies that facilitate the analysis of gene function in mammalian cells, including cell-based microarrays and genome-scale RNA interference (RNAi) libraries targeting human and mouse genes.

Learn more about research in the Sabatini laboratory here.