Dr. John A. Hanover is Chief of the Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology (LCMB) at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health; Director of the NIDDK Genomics Core; and Chief of the Cell Biochemistry Section within the LCMB. He embarked on his own research program as Principal Investigator in 1983 and in 1985 moved to NIDDK, where he became Chief of Laboratory of Cell Biochemistry and Biology in 1994 and Chief of the LCMB in 2010. Since 2012 he has also served as Director of the NIDDK Genomics Core Facility. He performed his postdoctoral work with Ira Pastan at the National Cancer Institute, studying the pathways of receptor-mediated endocytosis and the mechanisms of human multiple drug resistance mediated by the highly glycosylated multiple drug resistance channels.
