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| Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD Professor Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine
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| Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Age-Related Decline In Notch Expression Is Associated With A Decline In Proliferative Potential Of Muscle Progenitor Cells
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Dr. Rando received his MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School and began his post-graduate training as a medical intern at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He then completed a residency in neurology at the University of California at San Francisco where he was Chief Resident in his final year. Dr. Rando developed an interest in hereditary disorders of muscle during his residency, and he thus did a postdoctoral fellowship in cellular and molecular biology of muscle at Stanford University. Upon completion of his fellowship, he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford Medical School. There, his laboratory has focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms of age-related muscle atrophy, pathogenetic mechanisms of muscular dystrophies, cell survival and cell death signaling in muscle, and gene therapy approaches to muscle disorders. In addition to being director of the Muscle Disease Research Laboratory, Dr. Rando is very active in teaching medical and graduate students at Stanford. He continues his clinical practice both as Director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic at Stanford and in neurology clinic at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center where is Chief of the Neurology Service. In 1996, Dr. Rando received the annual Junior Faculty Research Award from the American Academy of Neurology for his studies of muscular dystrophies, and in 1997 he received the Terman Award from Stanford University for his studies of the role of integrin signaling in promoting muscle cell survival. In March of 2000, Dr. Rando was appointed as Director of the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Palo Alto VA. This past year, he was one of a 14-member panel invited from around the country to participate in a forum entitled “Aging in the 21st Century” sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.