Kevin Struhl, Ph.D.

David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School

Kevin Struhl, Ph.D., is the David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Struhl has established many of the principles involved in the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional activation and repression in eukaryotic cells including the recruitment of gene-specific and general transcription factors as well as histone deacetylases. Dr. Struhl received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University, and S.M. and S.B. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.